Sympiezomias

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Sympiezomias
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Sympiezomias citri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Sympiezomias
Faust, 1887 [1]
Type species
Brachyaspistes velatus
Species

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Diversity
About 37 species
Synonyms [ citation needed ]

Sympiezomias is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Curculionidae. [2] Species are distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, China and Japan. Almost all species are very uniform in external structures which leads to misidentification. [3]

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Description

Eyes lateral, broadly oval and moderately prominent. Rostrum longer than the head. In antennae, scape hardly exceeding the middle of the eye. Scape cylindrical, with slender base. Prothorax truncate at base and apex. Scutellum small. Elytra ovate, and narrowly marginate at the base. True shoulders are absent in elytra. Sternum with the narrow mesosternal epimera. Episterna narrow. Venter with rounded or subtruncate intercoxal process. In legs, femora clavate and front tibiae longer than the others. [4]

Species

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References

  1. Faust, Johannes (1887b) Verzeichniss der von Herr Herz in Peking, auf der Insel Hainan und auf der Halbinsel Korea gesammelten Rüsselkäfer. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 21(1/2): 26–40. [10–VI–1887], 21(1/2), 26–40.
  2. "Sympiezomias Faust, 1887". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  3. "A STUDY OF THE WEEVIL GENUS SYMPIEZOMIAS FAUST FROM CHINA". PeKing Institute of Zoology,Academia Sinica. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  4. "THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA, INCLUDING CEYLON AND BURMA: COLEOPTERA. RHYNCHOPHORA :-CURCULIONIDaE" (PDF). faunaofindia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  5. "Selection, Identification and Culture Characteristics of a Highly Virulent Strain of Beauveria towards Sympiezomias citri". Chinese Journal of Biological Control. 30 (6): 750. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  6. "A preliminary observation on feeding habit of Sympiezomias guangxiensis L Tianshan, L Xili – Guangxi Zhiwu, 1998". europepmc.org. January 1998. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  7. Tang, Pei-An; Zhang, Li; Li, Xiao-Peng; Li, Fei-Fan; Yuan, Ming-Long (12 December 2017). "The complete mitochondrial genome of Sympiezomias velatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2 (2): 449–450. doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1357445. PMC   7800147 . PMID   33473858 . Retrieved 17 August 2021.