Xylosandrus discolor
Species of beetle
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Xylosandrus discolor is a species of weevil found in Australia, Micronesia, Myanmar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.[1][2][3]
| Xylosandrus discolor | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Xylosandrus |
| Species: | X. discolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Xylosandrus discolor (Blanford, 1898) | |
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Description
Body length of the female ranges from 1.8 to 2.0 mm. Body bicolored. Pronotum light brown. Elytra dark brown. Antennae and legs are yellowish brown. Antennea with 5 funicular segments and obliquely truncate club. Pronotal vestiture of erect and hairy setae. Pronotal base covered with a dense patch of short erect setae. Pronotal disc is densely asperate-punctate. Pronotum consists with lateral costa and carina. Protibiae with 4 to 5 socketed teeth, whereas mesotibiae and metatibiae with 8 to 9 socketed teeth. In elytra, discal striae and interstriae multiseriate is punctate. Diclivital elytral face is steep and abruptly separated from disc. Elytral striae coarsely granulate with appressed hairy setae.[4]
A polyphagous species, it is found in many plants.[4][5] It is primarily a shoot borer.[6]
Host plants
- Ailanthus altissima
- Albizia
- Allamanda cathartica
- Bauhinia variegata
- Camellia sinensis
- Cassia multijuga
- Castanopsis fargesii
- Cedrela toona
- Chloroxylon swietenia
- Coffea arabica
- Coffea robusta
- Hevea brasiliensis
- Juglans nigra
- Machilus indica
- Mangifera indica
- Persea americana
- Pterospermum acerifolium
- Rhus chinensis
- Sophora japonica
- Swietenia mahagoni
- Tephrosia candida
- Terminalia myriocarpa
- Terminalia procera
- Theobroma cacao
- Vitis vinifera