Arixyleborus rugosipes explained

Arixyleborus rugosipes, is a species of weevil native to India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Malaysia, Borneo, Vietnam, Indonesia, and in Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand as an exotic species.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Description

Body is about 1.7 to 2.0 mm long. Body long and cylindrical. Head, pronotum and elytra are deep reddish brown. Legs and antennae are yellowish brown. Body globose, with moderately convex frons. Body surface is finely reticulate, with a few scattered punctures and fine hairs. Eyes are elongate, and deeply emarginate. Antenna with 5 segmental funicle, short scape and obliquely truncate club. Pronotum elongate with substraight basal margin. Scutellum subround and shiny. Elytra slightly longer and wide as pronotum. Basal margin of pronotum is substraight. There is a narrow, shiny and smooth transverse strip found on elytral base. Elytral interstriae ridged. Declivity gradually sloping posteriorly. Declivital face is moderately convex, whereas declivital striae and interstriae are distinctly marked as on the disc.[6]

Biology

A polyphagous species, it is found in many host plants.

Host plants

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of, Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins 1915 . 2021-09-06 . www.barkbeetles.info.
  2. Web site: SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID Fact sheet . 2021-09-06 . idtools.org.
  3. Web site: Beaver . R. A. . Sittichaya . W. . Liu . L-Y. . 2014-10-21 . Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins . 2021-09-06.
  4. Maetô . K. . Fukuyama . K. . Kirton . L. G. . Edge Effects on Ambrosia Beetle Assemblages in a Lowland Rain Forest, Bordering Oil Palm Plantations, in Peninsular Malaysia . 1999 . 2021-09-06 . Journal of Tropical Forest Science . 11 . 3 . 537–547. 43582562 .
  5. Schedl . Karl E. . 1972 . Bark and Timber Beetles from Australia (coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae) . 2021-09-06 . Australian Journal of Entomology . 11 . 2 . 143–149 . en . 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1972.tb01615.x. 85424790 .
  6. Web site: INDIAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ARIXYLEBORUS HOPKINS (seOL YTIDAE : COLEOPTERA) . 2021-09-05 . Bull. zool. Surv. India, 8 (1-3): 1-12, 1987.