Arixyleborus rugosipes

Arixyleborus rugosipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Phytophaga
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Arixyleborus
Species:	A. rugosipes
Binomial name
	Arixyleborus rugosipes; Hopkins, 1915
Synonyms
	Webbia medius Eggers, 1927; Xyleboricus medius (Eggers), Schedl, 1936; Arixyleborus medius (Eggers 1927); Webbia camphorae Eggers, 1936; Xyleboricus camphorae (Eggers), Beeson, 1941;

Arixyleborus rugosipes, is a species of weevil native to India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Malaysia, Borneo, Vietnam, Indonesia, and in Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand as an exotic species.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Description

Body is about 1.7 to 2.0 mm long. Body long and cylindrical. Head, pronotum and elytra are deep reddish brown. Legs and antennae are yellowish brown. Body globose, with moderately convex frons. Body surface is finely reticulate, with a few scattered punctures and fine hairs. Eyes are elongate, and deeply emarginate. Antenna with 5 segmental funicle, short scape and obliquely truncate club. Pronotum elongate with substraight basal margin. Scutellum subround and shiny. Elytra slightly longer and wide as pronotum. Basal margin of pronotum is substraight. There is a narrow, shiny and smooth transverse strip found on elytral base. Elytral interstriae ridged. Declivity gradually sloping posteriorly. Declivital face is moderately convex, whereas declivital striae and interstriae are distinctly marked as on the disc.^[6]

Biology

A polyphagous species, it is found in many host plants.^[1]

Host plants

References

^ ^a ^b "Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of , Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins 1915". www.barkbeetles.info. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
^ "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID | Fact sheet". idtools.org. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
^ Beaver, R. A.; Sittichaya, W.; Liu, L-Y. (2014-10-21). "Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins". Retrieved 2021-09-06.
^ Maetô, K.; Fukuyama, K.; Kirton, L. G. (1999). "Edge Effects on Ambrosia Beetle Assemblages in a Lowland Rain Forest, Bordering Oil Palm Plantations, in Peninsular Malaysia". Journal of Tropical Forest Science. 11 (3): 537–547. JSTOR 43582562. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
^ Schedl, Karl E. (1972). "Bark and Timber Beetles from Australia (coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 11 (2): 143–149. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1972.tb01615.x. S2CID 85424790. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
^ "INDIAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ARIXYLEBORUS HOPKINS ( seOL YTIDAE : COLEOPTERA)" (PDF). Bull. zool. Surv. India, 8 (1-3): 1-12, 1987. Retrieved 2021-09-05.

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[rugosipes-1] "Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of , Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins 1915". www.barkbeetles.info. Retrieved 2021-09-06.

[2] "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID | Fact sheet". idtools.org. Retrieved 2021-09-06.

[3] Beaver, R. A.; Sittichaya, W.; Liu, L-Y. (2014-10-21). "Arixyleborus rugosipes Hopkins". Retrieved 2021-09-06.

[4] Maetô, K.; Fukuyama, K.; Kirton, L. G. (1999). "Edge Effects on Ambrosia Beetle Assemblages in a Lowland Rain Forest, Bordering Oil Palm Plantations, in Peninsular Malaysia". Journal of Tropical Forest Science. 11 (3): 537–547. JSTOR 43582562. Retrieved 2021-09-06.

[5] Schedl, Karl E. (1972). "Bark and Timber Beetles from Australia (coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 11 (2): 143–149. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1972.tb01615.x. S2CID 85424790. Retrieved 2021-09-06.

[6] "INDIAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ARIXYLEBORUS HOPKINS ( seOL YTIDAE : COLEOPTERA)" (PDF). Bull. zool. Surv. India, 8 (1-3): 1-12, 1987. Retrieved 2021-09-05.

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