ENTIMINAE

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SUBFAMILY ENTIMINAE

TRIBE ANYPOTACTINI

Polydacrys depressifrons Boheman 1840: 298 . = Pandeletejus cavirostris (Schaeffer) 1908: 214 . = Pandeleteius nubilosus (Boheman) 1840: 296 . Distribution. Grenada, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent. USA (TX), Mexico, Belize, El Salvador , Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; widespread Antilles and North and/or Central America .

TRIBE EUSTYLINI

Brachyomus tuberculatus (Boheman) 1842: 218 ( Geonemus ). Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

Diaprepes abbreviatus (Linnaeus) 1758: 386 ( Curculio ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 436; Hustache 1929: 183; Ramos 1946: 43; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 99; O’Brien and Wibmer 1982: 55; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 282; Ivie et al. 2008b: 279. = Curculio abbreviateus variety brevis (Olivier) 1790: 549 of Guadeloupe, of Martinique. = Curculio abbreviateus variety distinguendus Gyllenhal 1834: 10 of Guadeloupe, of Martinique, of Puerto Rico. = Curculio abbreviateus variety guadeloupensis Gyllenhal 1834: 11 of Guadeloupe. = Curculio abbreviateus guadelupensis Hustache 1929: 184 (not guadeloupensis Gyllenhal 1834 ). Distribution. Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Martinique, Mona, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Lucia, St. Vincent ; widespread Antilles endemic. USA (FL, introduced, first reported in 1964). Economic importance. The citrus root weevil or the diaprepes root weevil. The species is a serious pest in Florida and the West Indies, attacking roots of Citrus and a wide variety of plants including many other cultivated trees and shrubs such as avocado ( Lapointe 2000). Woodruff (1964, 1968, 1985) reports that this weevil is commonly called ‘the sugar cane root stalk borer weevil’ or ‘vaquita’ in Puerto Rico. It is also a pest in the French Antilles ( Mauleon and Mademba-Sy 1988). Ulmer et al. (2006) report on the parasitoids of the weevil’s eggs on St. Lucia . Adults feed on leaves and larvae bore into the roots of plants.

Diaprepes excavatus Rosenschoeld 1840: 343 ; O’Brien and Wibmer 1982: 55. Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic. Notes. A possible pest of Citrus .

TRIBE GEONEMINI

Lachnopus curvipes (Fabricius) 1787: 113 ( Curculio ). Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 440; Hustache 1929: 199 ( Prepodes ); Valentine and Ivie 2005: 282; Ivie et al. 2008b: 279. = Curculio curvipes variety calcaratus (Olivier) 1807: 350 of Guadeloupe; not Oware (Africa), an error. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Barthélemy, St. Croix , St. Kitts, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Tortola ; widespread Antilles endemic.

TRIBE LORDOPINI

Hypoptus insularis Champion 1911: 302 . Distribution. Grenada, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic. Hypsonotus latus Jekel 1857: 147 . Distribution. St. Vincent; single island endemic.

TRIBE NAUPACTINI

Litostylus pudens (Boheman) 1833: 623 ( Cyphus ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 436 ( Neocyphus ); Hustache 1929: 188; Ivie et al. 2008b: 279. Distribution. Antigua, Montserrat, St. Barthélemy (type locality), St. Vincent ; Lesser Antilles endemic. Notes. A possible pest of Citrus .

TRIBE TANYMECINI

Pandeleteius testaceipes Hustache 1929: 181 ; Howden 1970: 48, 2004: 20 l; O’Brien and Wibmer 1982: 49; Woodruff et al. 1998: 23. = Pandeleteius sublineatus Champion 1911: 203 of Grenada and of St. Vincent; Leng and Mutchler 1914: 468; Howden 1970: 50, 2004: 201. Distribution. Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent; Lesser Antilles endemic. Not Hispaniola, contra Perez-Gelabert 2008: 136.