Lepropus ( Brachyaspistes ) tibialis (Green 1900)

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

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1

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scientific name

Lepropus ( Brachyaspistes ) tibialis (Green 1900)
status

 

Lepropus ( Brachyaspistes) tibialis (Green 1900) View in CoL

Brachyaspistes tibialis Jekel View in CoL in Green 1903: 52. [ Type locality: Ceylon; Type in the National Pusa Collection , India]

Sri Lankan records. Green (1903: 52); Poorani & Ramamurthy (1997: 41).

Distribution. Sri Lanka.

Biological notes. This species was found to cause serious injury to young tea plants by feeding on the foliage ( Green

1903).

Subgenus Lepropus s. str.

Anosius Fairmaire 1888: 199 . [ Type species: Anosius angustulus Fairmaire 1888 ]

Astycophilus Faust 1897: 348 . [ Type species: Curculio chrysochlorus Wiedemann 1823 = Curculio adultus Olivier 1807 ]

Astycus Schoenherr 1823: 1141 . [HN] [ Type species: Curculio adultus Olivier 1807 ]

Lepidastycus Faust 1894: 175 View in CoL . [ Type species: Lepidastycus doriae Faust 1894 View in CoL ]

Paromias Voss 1931: 35 View in CoL . [ Type species: Paromias sulphurifer Voss 1931 View in CoL = Astycus chinensis Fairmaire 1889 View in CoL ]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Lepropus

Loc

Lepropus ( Brachyaspistes ) tibialis (Green 1900)

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong 2025
2025
Loc

Brachyaspistes tibialis

Green, E. E. 1903: 52
1903
Loc

Sri

Poorani, J. & Ramamurthy, V. V. 1997: 41
Green, E. E. 1903: 52
1903
Loc

Lepidastycus

Faust, J. 1894: 175
1894
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