CurculionidaeChrysolopus spectabilis (Botany Bay Diamond Weevil) Lixus Perperus lateralis (White-striped Weevil)
Perperus lateralis belongs to the genus Perperus (that at time of writing 5 January 2024), has 12 described species listed in Atlas of Living Australia.3 It belongs in the family Curculionidae (known as True Weevils) and the subfamily Entiminae (known as the Broad-nosed Weevils).
The body of Perperus lateralis is shades of brown in colour, with distinctive white stripe along each sides of the elytra that continues to posterior margins of pronotum.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Curculionoidea
- Family: Curculionidae
- Subfamily: Entiminae
- Tribe: Leptopiini
- Genus: Perperus
- Species: Perperus lateralis
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Deb Taylor
- White-striped Weevil (Perperus lateralis), debtaylor142, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=1137175&user_id=debtaylor142&verifiable=any
- Perperus lateralis (Boisduval, 1835), Whitestriped Weevil, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Perperus lateralis
CurculionidaeChrysolopus spectabilis (Botany Bay Diamond Weevil) Lixus Perperus lateralis (White-striped Weevil)
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