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Rhynchophorus ferrugineus

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

Description

Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier 1791)

Curculio ferrugineus Olivier 1791: 473.

Rhynchophorus cinctus Faust 1893: 520.

Rhynchophorus dimidiatus Faust 1894: 330.

Rhynchophorus glabrirostris Schaufuss 1885: 203.

Curculio hemipterus Sulzer 1776: 39. [NA]

Rhynchophorus indostanus Chevrolat 1883: 562.

Rhynchophorus pascha Boheman 1845: 218.

Rhynchophorus papuanus Kirsch 1877: 156.

Rhynchophorus seminiger Faust 1894: 330.

Rhynchophorus signaticollis Chevlorat 1883: 562. [Type locality: Ceylon]

Calandra schach Fabricius 1801: 433.

Cordyle sexmaculatus Thunberg 1797: 46.

Rhynchophorus tenuirostris Chevrolat 1883: 561.

Sri Lankan records. Walker (1861); Motschulsky (1863 —Nura Ellia); Chevlorat (1883); Heller (1901: 339 —Kandy, Nalanda, Negombo, Paradna, Puttalam); Csiki (1936); Siriwardena et al. (2010); Singh & Ramesha (2018).

Distribution. Albania, Arab Emirates, Aruba, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canary Islands, China (Guangdong, Hainan, Xinjiang, Yunnan), Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Georgia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen.

Biological notes. The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, is considered a major pest in palm plantations, including the coconut palm (Cocos), date palm (Phoenix) and oil palm (Elaeis).

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 pages 175-176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891524

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References

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  • Chevrolat, L. A. A. (1883) Calandrides. Nouveaux genres et nouvelles especes, observations, synonymies, doubles emplois de noms de genres et d'especes (1 re partie). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 2 (4), 555-582.
  • 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.
  • Heller, K. M. (1901) Russelkafer aus Ceylon gesammelt von Dr. W. Horn. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1901 (2), 337-350.
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  • Siriwardena, K. A. P., Fernando, L. C. P., Nanayakkara, N., Perera, K. F. G., Kumara, A. D. N. T. & Nanayakkara, T. (2010) Portable acoustic device for detection of coconut palms infested by Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Crop Protection, 29 (1), 25-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2009.09.002
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