Eurymetopus birabeni Kuschel
Holotype, female, MLP
Geographic distribution
Distribution
An occasional minor pest
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Córdoba
- Uruguay
Other distribution
URUGUAY
Paysandú
Introduced in Australia.
Paysandú
Introduced in Australia.
- Eurymetopus birabeni Kuschel 1945: 127
Eurymetopus Schoenherr was revised by Lanteri (1984) and analyzed phylogenetically by Lanteri & Morrone (1995). It includes several species typical of the grassland of central Argentina and Uruguay.
E. birabeni differentiates from E. fallax mainly by the presence of two pairs of dark-brown maculae on the elytra, one large and another small; and the wider elytra, with more rounded humeri and larger punctures on the striae, having a round scale on bottom.
This species is flightless and probably parthenogenetic (Lanteri & Normark 1995).
E. birabeni differentiates from E. fallax mainly by the presence of two pairs of dark-brown maculae on the elytra, one large and another small; and the wider elytra, with more rounded humeri and larger punctures on the striae, having a round scale on bottom.
This species is flightless and probably parthenogenetic (Lanteri & Normark 1995).
Medicago sativa L., Lotus, Trifolium repens L. Trifolium pratense L. (Fabaceae) and Triticum aestivum L. (Poaceae) (Alzugaray et al. 1998, Lanteri et al. 1997, Lanteri et al. 2002a).
Associated with native vegetation and crops of the Pampean biogeographic province.
Associated with native vegetation and crops of the Pampean biogeographic province.
- KUSCHEL G. 1945. Aportes entomológicos I (Curculionidae). Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 139: 120- 136.
- LANTERI A.A. 1984. Revisión sistemática del género Eurymetopus Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) mediante la aplicación de técnicas numéricas. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 43(1 4): 247-281.
- LANTERI A.A. & MORRONE J.J. 1995. Cladistics of the Naupactus leucoloma species group, Atrichonotus, and Eurymetopus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 54(1-4): 99-112.
- LANTERI A.A. & NORMARK B.B. 1995. Parthenogenesis in the tribe Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88(6): 722-731.
- LANTERI A.A. ET AL. 1997. Gorgojos perjudiciales a los cultivos de trigo en Argentina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 56(1-4): 77-89.
- ALZUGARAY R. ET AL. 1998. Situación de los insectos del suelo en Uruguay. In: Morón, M.A., Aragón A. (eds.). Avances en el estudio de la diversidad, importancia y manejo de los Coleópteros edafícolas americanos. Publicación Especial, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Puebla, Sociedad Mexicana de Entomología, pp. 151-164.
- LANTERI A.A. ET AL. 2002a. Gorgojos de la Argentina y sus plantas huéspedes. Tomo I: Apionidae y Curculionidae. Publicación Especial de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina Nº 1, 98 pp.
