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Sternuchopsis transversus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
Description
Sternuchopsis transversus (Walker 1859)
Alcides transversus Walker 1859a: 264. [Type locality: Ceylon; Holotype deposited in British Museum (N. H.), London]
Alcides curialis Pascoe 1883: 124. [Type locality: Ceylon — Dikoya]
Sri Lankan records. Walker (1859a: 264); Motschulsky (1863: 527); Pascoe (1883: 124 —Dikoya); Haaf (1960: 647—Dikoya); Andrew & Ramamurthy (2010: 318).
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 196, 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
- Sternuchopsis
- Species
- transversus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sternuchopsis transversus (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.
- Pascoe, F. P. (1883) On some new species of Curculionidae from Ceylon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 11 (62), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938309459107
- 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.
- Haaf, E. (1960) Die Alcidodes der Insel Ceylon (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey, 11, 640-673.
- Andrew, J. P. & Ramamurthy, V. V. (2010) A checklist of weevils of the tribe Mecysolobini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae). Oriental Insects, 44 (1), 271-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2010.10417619