Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall 1916

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, Zootaxa 5719 (2), pp. 151-206 : 181

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7F7EB5B-AF3C-4BE9-9839-F75342943E2D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17891831
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627-FFCB-AB30-FF48-FBF98C1E97DB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall 1916
status

Treatment

Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall 1916 View in CoL

Myllocerus undatus Marshall 1916: 350 View in CoL . [ Type locality: Ceylon —Weligama; Type in the British Museum]

Sri Lankan records. Marshall (1916: 350 —Weligama, Kandy); Voss (1957: 102 —Kurunegala, Puttalam, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kandy, Haragama, Kantalai); Ramamurthy & Ghai (1988: 399).

Distribution. Sri Lanka.

Biological notes. The Sri Lankan weevil ( Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall ) has a wide host range of over 150 plant species including native, ornamental, vegetable and fruit species. Some host plant examples include Citrus spp. , citrus; Conocarpus erectus , green buttonwood; Bauhinia x blakeana, Hong Kong orchid tree; Chrysobalanus icaco , cocoplum; Phoenix roebellenii , pygmy date palm; Prunus persica , peach; Lagerstroemia indica , crepe myrtle; Capsicum spp. , pepper; Litchi chinensis , lychee; Muntingia calabura , strawberry tree; and Solanum melongena , eggplant. It is unclear what the larval host plants are, but they have been reared in the laboratory on pepper, eggplant, cotton, carrot, and sweet potato roots ( Neal 2017).