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Sipalinus gigas subsp. gigas

  • 1. Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea

Description

Sipalinus gigas gigas (Fabricius 1775)

Curculio gigas Fabricius 1775: 127.

Sipalus chinensis Fairmaire 1887: 130.

Sipalus formosanus Kôno 1934b: 7.

Calandra granulatus Fabricius 1801: 432.

Sipalus hypocrita Boheman 1845: 209.

Sipalus tinctus Walker 1859b: 218. [Type locality: Ceylon]

Sri Lankan records. Walker (1859b); Walker (1861); Motschulsky (1863 —Nura Ellia); Csiki (1936); Vaurie (1971 — Agalawatte, Mabaoya, Batticaloa, Kandy, Kelani valley near colombo, Peradeniya).

Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia (Far East), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, "Himalayas"; Philippines to New Guinea, Solomon islands and eastern Australia.

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 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891524

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References

  • Walker, F. (1859 b) Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. XXIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 4 (21), 217-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935908697111
  • Walker, F. (1861) List of Ceylon insects. In: Tennent, J. E. (Ed.), Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London, pp. 442-463.
  • 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.
  • Csiki, E. (1936) Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae, Cossoninae. Pars 149. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, ' s-Gravenhage, pp. 1-212.
  • Vaurie, P. (1971) Weevils of the tribe Sipalini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae). Part 3. The genus Sipalinus. American Museum Novitates, 2463, 1-43.