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| Scientific Name: |
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Sinoxylon
anale
Lesne
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| Origin | : | No Information Available |
| Primary Host | : |
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| Occurrence | : | On Timber |
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| Distribution: |
| India - Kerala,Punjab,United Provinces,Central Provinces,Bombay,Bengal and Burma. |
| Description: |
| The beetle is dark brown or black in colour, measuring 4-5.5 mm in length. Head is puncturate with anterior tuberculations. Prothorax is convex, puncturate having transverse band of rasp like structures dorsally. Elytra is truncate, wide at the apical region and bear two sharp teeth. |
| Seasonal occurrence: |
| Varries in places |
| Life Cycle Duration: |
| Beetle and larva bore in sapwood of dead wood and converted timber. |
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| Egg |
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Larva |
| Larva white curved and 4-5.5 mm in length. Prominent dark line along the back. The larval tunnel run radially from the bark into sap wood. Larval galleries are longitudinal and confined to sap wood.
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Pupa |
| The pupa has the ordinary white,beetle -like form,gradually assumes the shape of the mature insect.The head,legs, and wings are pressed on to the undersurface.
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Adult |
| Beetles are dull coloured,dark-brown to black,cylindrical in shape,hooked prothorax and projections at the apex of elytra.
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| Natural Enemies |
| Scarites bengalensis,Morio subconvexus. |
| Nature of damage caused |
| The larval tunnel run radially from the bark into sap wood. Larval galleries are longitudinal and confined to sap wood. |
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| Host Range ( Click any one Host Range to view details) |
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Acacia
arabica
Willd.
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Pterocarpus
marsupium
Roxb.
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Shorea
robusta
Roxb.
ex
Gaertn.Dalbergia
pan
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Terminalia
tomentosa
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Acacia
senegal
(L.)
Willd
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Hevea
braziliensis
(Willd.
ex
A.
Juss.)
Muell.-Arg
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| References |
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| Beeson, C.F.C., 1941.The Ecology and control of the forest insects of India and neighbouring countries, Vasanth Press, Dehra Dun, 990p.
Indian Forest Insects of Economic Importance COLEOPTERA
written by Edward Percy Stebbing .
Remadevi, O.K. 2002. Powder post beetle attack on plantation timber in depots and its management. MyForest, 38(1): 23-27.
Mathew, G. 1985. Some coleopteran predators associated with timber pests in Kerala (India). Entomon, 10(2): 179-181. |
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