Myllocerus viridanus (Fabricius 1775)

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.17891837

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627-FFCB-AB30-FF48-F9D588D19587

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Myllocerus viridanus (Fabricius 1775)
status

 

Myllocerus viridanus (Fabricius 1775) View in CoL

Curculio viridanus Fabricius 1775: 155 View in CoL . [ Type locality: India —Tranquebar; Type in the Copenhagen University Museum]

Myllocerus angustifrons Faust 1897: 356 View in CoL . [ Type locality: India; Type in the Dresden Museum]

Sri Lankan records. Heller (1901: 338 —Colombo, Negombo); Marshall (1916: 301 —Colombo, Galle, Balaugoda, Dikoya, Kandy, Negombo); Voss (1957: 101 —Elephant Pass, Manner, Nugawela, Kandy); Ramamurthy & Ghai (1988: 414).

Distribution. Sri Lanka , India.

Biological notes. Rice, jute, groundnut, castor, linseed, sunflower, sweet potato, snake gourd, lab-lab, okra, lemon, mango, guava, papaya, white sapota, fig, peach, cocoa, tea, rose, indigo, plumbago, sesbania, teak, eucalyptus, acalypha, Proba anatha , lantana, low vegetation, mountain shrub; also attracted to light ( Ramamurthy & Ghai 1988).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Myllocerus

Loc

Myllocerus viridanus (Fabricius 1775)

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong 2025
2025
Loc

Sri

Ramamurthy, V. V. & Ghai, S. 1988: 414
Voss, E. 1957: 101
Marshall, G. A. K. 1916: 301
Heller, K. M. 1901: 338
1901
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