Eurymetopus unicolor (Hustache)
Female, MACN. Photograph by B. Pianzola
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Uruguay
Other distribution
URUGUAY
Artigas, Canelones, Colonia, Lavalleja, Montevideo, Rivera, Treinta y Tres
Artigas, Canelones, Colonia, Lavalleja, Montevideo, Rivera, Treinta y Tres
- Metoponeurys unicolor Hustache 1938a: 16
- Eurymetopus unicolor : Kuschel 1945: 130
E. unicolor differentiates from all the remaining species of Eurymetopus because is larger, with greyish scaly vestiture and almost indistinct dark-brown maculae on the elytra; the forehead is very broad, the eyes very convex and the pronotum shows large punctures. It was redescribed by Lanteri & Morrone (1995), which provided a key for the seven species of the genus.
This species is flightless and probably parthenogenetic, based on the absence of males (Lanteri & Normark 1995).
This species is flightless and probably parthenogenetic, based on the absence of males (Lanteri & Normark 1995).
Unknown.
It is associated with gramineous plants of the Pampean biogeographic province.
It is associated with gramineous plants of the Pampean biogeographic province.
- HUSTACHE A. 1938a. Curculionides de l'Argentine et des régions limitrophes. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 10(1): 3-17.
- KUSCHEL G. 1945. Aportes entomológicos I (Curculionidae). Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina 139: 120- 136.
- 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.
