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Cosmopolites sordidus

Authors/Creators

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

Description

Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar 1823)

Calandra sordidus Germar 1823: 299.

Sphenophorus cribricollis Walker 1859b: 218. [Type locality: Ceylon]

Sphenophorus maderensis Hoffmann 1938: 48.

Curculio mendicus Olivier 1791: 480. [NO]

Sphenophorus striatus Fåhraeus 1845: 251.

Sri Lankan records. Walker (1859b); Motschulsky (1863 —Nura Ellia); Heller (1901: 339 —Bentota, Colombo, Negombo, Puttalam, Weligama); Csiki (1936); Voss (1957 —Akurana); Zimmerman (1968); Singh & Ramesha (2018).

Distribution. Australia, Brazil, Canary Islands, Chile, China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hainan, Yunnan), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, France, Fiji, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Madagascar, Madeira Archipelaga, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Polynesia (Cook Island), Puerto Rico, French Polynesia (Tonga, Tuvalu), Samoa, Seychelles, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United States of America (Florida), Vietnam.

Biological notes. The banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, is the most important insect pest of bananas and plantains (Musa spp.).

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

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627FFCCAB37FF48FB9889A194A8

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17891524 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE37E5FFFD5AB2EFFDFFFC68831923D (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03DA0627FFCCAB37FF48FB9889A194A8 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/312192377 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313889/taxon/03DA0627FFCCAB37FF48FB9889A194A8.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Germar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dryophthoridae
Genus
Cosmopolites
Species
sordidus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1823) sec. Wijesinghe & Hong, 2025

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
  • 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.
  • Heller, K. M. (1901) Russelkafer aus Ceylon gesammelt von Dr. W. Horn. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1901 (2), 337-350.
  • Csiki, E. (1936) Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae, Cossoninae. Pars 149. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, ' s-Gravenhage, pp. 1-212.
  • Voss, E. (1957) Ceylonesische Curculioniden aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum zu Basel. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 68, 97-118.
  • Zimmerman, E. C. (1968) Rhynchophorinae of Southeastern Polynesia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Pacific Insects, 10 (1), 47-77.
  • Singh, A. K. & Ramesha, B. (2018) Annotated checklist of Indian Rhynchophorinae (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae). Indian Journal of Entomology, 80 (3), 982-996. https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-8172.2018.00149.9