Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) seed-predators of syzygium and eugenia spp. (myrtaceae), with description of the alcidodes expansitarsis species group (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Mecysolobini)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1683-1706

  Lyal, C H C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcidodes; Curculionidae; Eugenia; Myrtaceae; Seed predator; South east asia; Syzygium

Indexed keywords

NEW SPECIES; SEED PREDATOR; TAXONOMY; WEEVIL;

ASIA, (SOUTHEAST);

ACYTHOPEUS; ALCIDODES; ALCIDODES EUGENIOPHILUS; ALCIDODES EXPANSITARSIS; ALCIDODES GYMNASTICUS; ALCIDODES JANETAE; APOTOMORHINUS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIO; CURCULIONIDAE; EUGENIA; MECYSOLOBINI; MOLYTINAE; MYRTACEAE; SYZYGIUM;

EID: 0030303620     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222939600770991     Document Type: Article

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