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Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) aequalis
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- 1. Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
Description
Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) aequalis (Walker 1859)
Piazomias aequalis Walker 1859a: 263. [Type locality: Ceylon; Type in the British Museum]
Astycus ebeninus Walker 1859a: 263. [Type locality: Ceylon; Type in the British Museum]
Sri Lankan records. Walker (1859a: 263); Motschulsky (1863: 525); Marshall (1916: 147 —Dikoya, Kitulgalla); Poorani & Ramamurthy (1997: 49).
Distribution. Sri Lanka.
Notes
Published as part of Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5719 (2) on page 184, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891524
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Lepropus
- Species
- aequalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) aequalis (Walker, 1859) sec. Wijesinghe & Hong, 2025
References
- Walker, F. (1859 a) Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. XXVII (Continued). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3 (16), 258-265.
- Motschulsky, V. de (1863) Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'ile Ceylan (suite). Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 36 (2), 421-532.
- Marshall, G. A. K. (1916) Coleoptera. Rhynchophora: Curculionidae. In: Shipley, A. E. (Ed.), The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. i - xv + 1-367. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.100762
- Poorani, J. & Ramamurthy, V. V. (1997) Weevils of the genus Lepropus Schoenherr from the Oriental region (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae). Oriental Insects, 31, 1-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1997.10433751