Cnestus gravidus is a species of weevil found in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Cnestus |
| Species: | C. gravidus
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| Cnestus gravidus (Blanford, 1898)
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Description
editAverage body length is about 5.0 to 5.5 mm. Body with a bicolored pronotum where the apical half is black and basal half is orange. Procoxae is subcontiguous. Antennae with four funicle segments and obliquely truncate club. The first antennal segment forms a circular costa. Coarse median pair of asperities are found on the anterior margin of the pronotum. Protibiae consists with 7 socketed teeth.[3] There is a mesonotal mycangial tuft found on the pronotal base. Elytral disc is short and elytral declivity is obliquely truncate. Elytral interstriae is granulate with a median row of long erect hairs.[1][4]
References
edit- ^ a b "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID: Fact sheet". idtools.org. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ^ Beaver, R. A.; Sittichaya, W.; Liu, L-Y. (2014-10-21). "A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Cnestus gravidus Blandford". Zootaxa. 3875: 1–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3875.1.1. PMID 25544343. Retrieved 2021-09-06 – via Zenodo.
- ^ Dole, Stephanie A.; Cognato, Anthony I. (2010). "Phylogenetic revision of Xylosandrus Reitter (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborina)" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4. 61 (10): 451–545. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ Smith, Sarah M.; Beaver, Roger A.; Cognato, Anthony I. (2020-03-11). "A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China". ZooKeys (983): 1–442. doi:10.3897/zookeys.983.52630. PMC 7655787. PMID 33244289. Retrieved 2021-09-06.