Melanterius corosus (Boisduval 1835)
- Dataset
- Host associations of Melanterius Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cleogonini), with a diagnosis and delimitation of the genus and description of five new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Curculionidae
- genus
- Melanterius
- species
- Melanterius corosus
description
The species has been reared in the Sydney area from seeds of A. longifolia, A. suaveolens and A. ulicifolia by T. Auld in 1981 / 1982 (Auld, 1983, 1989) and of A. brownii by T. Auld in 1985. We collected series of specimens from A. gordonii, A. suaveolens and A. ulicifolia in the Blue Mountains National Park, and a female was taken on A. complanata in the Newfoundland State Forest (Table 1). It appears that A. suaveolens, A. ulicifolia and perhaps A. gordonii are larval hosts (Table 2), but the species is evidently not host-specific.
Name
- Homonyms
- Melanterius corosus (Boisduval 1835)