Naupactus tarsalis Boheman
Female, MLP. Squamose morphotype. Photograph by B. Pianzola
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
- Argentina
- Chaco
- Corrientes
- Formosa
- Misiones
- Salta
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
Other distribution
BOLIVIA
Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija
BRAZIL
Bahia, Federal District, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Tocantins
PARAGUAY
Amambay, Concepción, Paraguarí
Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija
BRAZIL
Bahia, Federal District, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Tocantins
PARAGUAY
Amambay, Concepción, Paraguarí
- Naupactus tarsalis Boheman 1840: 58
- Naupactus glaucivittatus Blanchard 1847: 202
- Naupactus sulphureosignatus Blanchard 1847: 202
- Naupactus albidiventris Hustache 1947: 75
Naupactus tarsalis is similar to N. schapleri in body size, shape and color pattern, and mainly differentiates because has more convex eyes and more elongate elytra.
Antennae are slender and long, pronotum is truncate-conical, with slightly punctate disc, curved flanks, and bisinuate beveled base; elytra are elongate and slender, with strongly bisinuate and thickened base, broad humeri, flat intervals and distinct punctures of striae; denticles on inner margin of front tibiae are small and corbels of hind tibiae are slender, squamose.
This species shows two morphotypes, the typical one is almost completely nude of scales, except for a pair of wide, yellow (type of N. tarsalis) or green (type of N. glaucivittatus) stripes, along margins of pronotum and 5° to 7° intervals of elytra. In the squamose morphotype (type of N. albidiventris) the stripes are cream and usually divided in three parts along the elytra; the rest of the integument is covered with loose whitish seta-like scales. In both morphotypes the scutellum is covered with white scales.
Males are more slender than females and tarsi of the front legs are widened.
Guedes & Parra (2004) studied the oviposition habits of this species.
Antennae are slender and long, pronotum is truncate-conical, with slightly punctate disc, curved flanks, and bisinuate beveled base; elytra are elongate and slender, with strongly bisinuate and thickened base, broad humeri, flat intervals and distinct punctures of striae; denticles on inner margin of front tibiae are small and corbels of hind tibiae are slender, squamose.
This species shows two morphotypes, the typical one is almost completely nude of scales, except for a pair of wide, yellow (type of N. tarsalis) or green (type of N. glaucivittatus) stripes, along margins of pronotum and 5° to 7° intervals of elytra. In the squamose morphotype (type of N. albidiventris) the stripes are cream and usually divided in three parts along the elytra; the rest of the integument is covered with loose whitish seta-like scales. In both morphotypes the scutellum is covered with white scales.
Males are more slender than females and tarsi of the front legs are widened.
Guedes & Parra (2004) studied the oviposition habits of this species.
Harmful for Citrus sp (Rutaceae) in São Paulo and Minas Gerais, Brazil (Lanteri et al. 2002b, Guedes et al. 2005).
Mainly associated with vegetation of Cerrado and Chacoan biogeographic provinces.
Mainly associated with vegetation of Cerrado and Chacoan biogeographic provinces.
- BOHEMAN C.H. 1840. In: Schoenherr, C.J. Genera et species curculionidum cum synonymia hujus familiae. Roret, Paris; Fleischer, Lipsiae. Vol. 6, pt.1, pp. 1-474.
- BLANCHARD C.E. 1847. In: d´Orbigny A. Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la République Orientale de l’Uruguay, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826-1833. Bertrand, Paris, Levrault, Strasburg, vol. 6, part 2 (Insectes), 222 pp., illus. [Curc. Pp. 201-204].
- HUSTACHE A. 1947. Naupactini de l’Argentine et des régions limitrophes (Col. Curculion.). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 13(1-5): 3-146.
- LANTERI A.A. ET AL. 2002b. Weevil Injurious for Roots of Citrus in São Paulo State, Brazil. Neotropical Entomology 31(4): 561-569.
- GUEDES J.V.C. & PARRA J.R. 2004. Oviposição dos curculionídeos-das-raízes dos citros (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Ciência Rural, Santa Maria, 34(3): 673-678.
- GUEDES J.V.C. ET AL. 2005. Chave de Identificação, Ocorrência e Distribuição dos Curculionídeos-das-raízes dos Citros em São Paulo e Minas Gerais. Neotropical Entomology 34(4): 577-584.
