Species of beetle
| Coccotrypes cyperi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Coleoptera
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| Suborder:
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Polyphaga
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| Infraorder:
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Cucujiformia
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| Family:
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Curculionidae
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| Genus:
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Coccotrypes
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| Species:
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C. cyperi
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| Binomial name
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Coccotrypes cyperi
(Beeson 1929) Wood & Bright, 1992
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| Synonyms
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- Thamnurgides cyperi Beeson 1929
- Xyleborus conspeciens Schedl 1936
- Thamnurgides indicus Eggers 1936
- Coccotrypes insularis (Eggers 1940)
- Dryocoetes insularis Eggers 1940
- Coccotrypes subdepressus Eggers 1940
- Dryocoetes subimpresus Eggers 1940
- Poecilips subaplanatus Schedl 1942
- Poecilips carabaicus Schedl 1952. Schedl 1952
- Poecilips eggersi Schedl 1952. Schedl 1952
- Poecilips pilifrons Browne 1970
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Coccotrypes cyperi, commonly known as seed borer,[1] is a species of weevil with a cosmopolitan distribution.[2]
Distribution
Native range of the species is South east Asia. It is found in Myanmar, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Sweden, Seychelles, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panamá, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, México, United States, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Saint Vicente and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, US Virgin Islands, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.[3]
It is introduced to USA in the early 1900s particularly due to imported bird seeds and avocado seeds.[2]
Biology
After mating, adult beetle breeds in fruits, seeds, petioles, phloem, twigs, under bark of branches and logs. Particularly a seed borer, grubs are bore into the soft tissues. Both adult and the larva are polyphagous and has been reported from about 50 host plant species. In 2013 and 2015, it has been intercepted, in Cyprus on plants for planting of Ficus microcarpa from China.[2]
Host plants
References
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