Cleonaria bicolor

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Cleonaria bicolor
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Cleonaria
Species:
C. bicolor
Binomial name
Cleonaria bicolor
Thomson, 1864 [1]

Cleonaria bicolor is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by James Thomson in 1864. [1] [2]

Cleonaria breed on species of Rubiaceae, particularly in the genus Ixora . Adults emerge and breed after the rains. Adults make incision on leaves while feeding and breed by laying eggs inside a hole made on the bark. The larvae have a diapause and pupate inside a burrow. [3] A bethylid wasp parasitizes the larvae of the beetle in southern India. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cleonaria bicolor Thomson, 1864". BioLib. Archived from the original on 15 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Thomson, J. (1866). "Systema Cerambycidarum". Mémoires de la Société royale des sciences de Liège. 19.
  3. ↑ Prathapan, K.D.; Faizal, M.H.; Anith, K.N. (2010). "Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): a new pest of Ixora". Entomon. 34 (3): 201–204.
  4. ↑ Gupta, Ankita; Rajeshwari, S. K.; Azevedo, Celso O. (2017). "Biology and description of Megaprosternum cleonarovorum sp. nov. Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of Cleonaria bicolor Thomson (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India". Zootaxa. 4237 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4237.1.4. ISSN   1175-5334.