Published June 1, 1942
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Cylas formicarius
Description
10.Cylas fonnicarius (Fabricius) (pl. 6, D).
Brentus formicarius Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl., 74, 1798.
Cylas turcipennis Boheman, in Schoenherr's Gen. Spec. Cure. 1: 369, 1833.
The color-form elegantulus (Summers) with steel-blue elytra, red legs, antennae, prothorax and mesothorax was taken as follows: four from Piti, one, May 10, 1936, Usinger; one, from sweet-potato vines, Nov. 17, Swezey; and two swept from morning-glory vine on sugar cane, Sept. 1, Swezey.
This species is a well-known tropicopolitan pest of sweet potatoes.
Notes
Published as part of Zimmerman, Elwood C., 1942, Curculionidae of Guam, pp. 73-146 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 93, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5159964
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.5159964 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/2A01FF71FFF051065F5BAF5AFFFAFF96 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1936-05-10 , 1936-09-01 , 1936-11-17
- Verbatim event date
- 1936-05-10 , 1936-09-01 , 1936-11-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Brentidae
- Genus
- Cylas
- Species
- formicarius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cylas formicarius (Fabricius, 1798) sec. Zimmerman, 1942