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Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) tibialis
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- 1. Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Korea
Description
Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) tibialis (Green 1900)
Brachyaspistes tibialis Jekel in Green 1903: 52. [Type locality: Ceylon; Type in the National Pusa Collection, India]
Sri Lankan records. Green (1903: 52); Poorani & Ramamurthy (1997: 41).
Distribution. Sri Lanka.
Biological notes. This species was found to cause serious injury to young tea plants by feeding on the foliage (Green 1903).
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 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891524
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Green
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Lepropus
- Species
- tibialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepropus (Brachyaspistes) tibialis (Green, 1900) sec. Wijesinghe & Hong, 2025
References
- Green, E. E. (1903) Notes on insect pests from the entomological section, Indian Museum. Indian Museum Notes, 5 (2), 39-54.
- 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