Lepropus ( Lepropus ) rutilans (Olivier 1807)

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, Zootaxa 5719 (2), pp. 151-206 : 185-186

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scientific name	Lepropus ( Lepropus ) rutilans (Olivier 1807)
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Lepropus ( Lepropus) rutilans (Olivier 1807) View in CoL

Curculio rutilans Olivier 1807: 333 View in CoL . [ Type locality: India; Type in the Paris Museum]

Curculio lateralis Fabricius 1792: 454 View in CoL . [HN]

Curculio obtusus Gravenhorst 1807: 215 View in CoL . [HN]

Lepropus subacuminatus Faust 1893: 505 View in CoL .

Sri Lankan records. Motschulsky (1863: 525)

Distribution. Sri Lanka , Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand.

Biological notes. Rice, maize, sugarcane, grasses, pulses, blackgram, redgram, greengram, groundnut, sunnhemp, lucerne, soybean, beans, cowpea, castor, cotton, indigo, guava, ber, mango, okra, brinjal, Hibiscus , sisso, sal, Murraya koenigii , Erythrina indica , Ficus carica , Lantana , weeds, Hevea , mulberry, some, tea, coffee, teak, tung tree, Aleurites fordi , A. montana , chir ( Pinus longifolia ). Attracted to light ( Poorani & Ramamurthy 1997).

Subtribe Tanymecina Lacordaire 1863

Genus Esamus Chevrolat 1880d: 58 [RN] [ Type species: Curculio circumdatus Wiedemann 1821 ]

Asemus Wiedemann 1823b: 164 [HN] [ Type species: Curculio chloroleucus Wiedemann 1819 ]

Asemus Schoenherr 1823: 1141 [HN] [ Type species: Curculio circumdatus Wiedemann 1821 ]