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Species Cosmopolites sordidus - Banana Root Borer

Cosmopolites sordidus Cosmopolites sordidus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Dryophthorinae
Tribe Rhynchophorini
Subtribe Sphenophorina
Genus Cosmopolites
Species sordidus (Banana Root Borer)
Explanation of Names
Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar 1824)
Size
~11 mm[Cite:185010]
Range
nearly all banana-growing areas of the world[Cite:185010]; adventive in NA (FL)(1)
Food
associated with banana trees (Musa sapientum), larvae mine stem & corm(1)
Remarks
one of the most serious insect pests of bananas; earliest record in our area: FL 1917[Cite:185010]
Internet References
Fact sheet (Woodruff & Fasulo 2006-2012)[Cite:185010]
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by v belov on 4 February, 2014 - 4:24pm
Last updated 6 February, 2014 - 9:01am

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