''Coccotrypes cyperi'', commonly known as seed borer, is a species of
weevil
Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small – less than in length – and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several fa ...
with a cosmopolitan distribution.
Distribution
Native range of the species is South east Asia. It is found in Myanmar, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Sweden, Seychelles, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panamá, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, México, United States, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Micronesia, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Saint Vicente and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, US Virgin Islands, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
It is introduced to USA in the early 1900s particularly due to imported bird seeds and avocado seeds.
Biology
After mating, adult beetle breeds in fruits, seeds, petioles, phloem, twigs, under bark of branches and logs. Particularly a seed borer, grubs are bore into the soft tissues. Both adult and the larva are polyphagous and has been reported from about 50 host plant species. In 2013 and 2015, it has been intercepted, in ''Cyprus'' on plants for planting of ''
Ficus microcarpa
''Ficus microcarpa'', also known as Chinese banyan, Hill's weeping fig, small-fruited fig, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, or curtain fig, is a species of banyan tree in the family Moraceae. Its native range is from India to China and Japan, thro ...
Artocarpus lacucha
''Artocarpus lacucha'', also known as monkey jack or monkey fruit, is a tropical evergreen tree species of the family Moraceae. It is distributed throughout the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The tree is valued for its wood; its fruit ...
Bombax ceiba
''Bombax ceiba'', like other trees of the genus ''Bombax'', is commonly known as cotton tree. More specifically, it is sometimes known as Malabar silk-cotton tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of ...
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Borassus flabellifer
''Borassus flabellifer'', commonly known as doub palm, palmyra palm, tala or tal palm, toddy palm, lontar palm, wine palm, or ice apple, is a fan palm native to South Asia (especially in Bangladesh, East India, and South India) and Southeast As ...
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Calophyllum inophyllum
''Calophyllum inophyllum'' is a large evergreen plant, commonly called tamanu, oil-nut, mastwood, beach calophyllum or beautyleaf. It is native to the Old World Tropics, from Africa through Asia to Australia and Polynesia. Due to its importance a ...
Canarium strictum
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Carallia brachiata
''Carallia brachiata'' is a large tree in the family Rhizophoraceae
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Cecropia insignis
''Cecropia'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees.
The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the speci ...
Cecropia peltata
''Cecropia peltata'' is a fast-growing tree in the genus ''Cecropia''. Common names include trumpet tree, trumpet-bush, bacano, bois canon and snakewood. It is listed as one of the List of the world's 100 worst invasive species, world's 100 worst ...
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Ceiba pentandra
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Coffea
''Coffea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. ''Coffea'' species are shrubs or small trees native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical Asia. The seeds of some species, called coffee beans, are used to flavor variou ...
Dipterocarpus retusus
''Dipterocarpus retusus'', commonly known as hollong, is a large tree and perhaps the best known species in the genus ''Dipterocarpus''. It is native to China, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and India.DY PHO ...
Eschweilera biflava
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Euterpe oleracea
Euterpe (; , from + ) was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music. In late Classical times, she was named muse of lyric poetry. She has been called "Giver of delight" by ancient poets.
Mythology
Euterpe was born as one of t ...
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Ficus glomerata
''Ficus racemosa'', the cluster fig, red river fig or gular, is a species of plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to Australia and tropical Asia. It is a fast-growing plant with large, very rough leaves, usually attaining the size of a lar ...
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Ficus retusa
''Ficus retusa'' is a species of evergreen woody plant in the fig genus, native to the Malay Archipelago and Malesia floristic region. The species name has been widely mis-applied to '' Ficus microcarpa''.
Description
''Ficus retusa'' is a rapi ...
Mammea americana
''Mammea americana'', commonly known as mammee, mammee apple, mammey, mamey, mamey apple, Santo Domingo apricot, tropical apricot, or South American apricot, is an evergreen tree of the family Calophyllaceae, whose fruit is edible. It has als ...
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Mangifera indica
''Mangifera indica'', commonly known as mango, is an evergreen species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is a large fruit tree, capable of growing to a height and width of . There are two distinct genetic populations in modern m ...
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Myrica gale
''Myrica gale'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Myricaceae native to parts of Eurasia and North America. Common names include bog-myrtle, sweet willow, Dutch myrtle, and sweetgale.
Description
''Myrica gale'' is a deciduous shrub g ...
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Oenocarpus bataua
''Oenocarpus bataua'', the patawa, sehe, hungurahua (Ecuador) or mingucha, is a palm tree native to the Amazon rainforest. The tree produces edible fruits rich in high-quality oil.Vallejo Rendón, Darío 2002. "Oenocarpus bataua, seje"; ''Colombi ...
Persea americana
The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (''Persea americana'') is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to Americas, the Americas and was first domesticated in Mesoamerica more than 5,000 years ago. It was priz ...
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Phytelephas macrocarpa
''Phytelephas macrocarpa'' is a single-stemmed, unarmed, reclining or erect palm from the extreme northern coastal regions of South America, growing to some 12 m tall. It has been introduced and cultivated in tropical regions all over the world. ...
Pinus kesiya
''Pinus kesiya'' (Khasi pine, Benguet pine or three-needled pine) is one of the most widely distributed pines in Asia. Its range extends south and east from the Khasi Hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, to northern Thailand, Philipp ...
Rhizophora mangle
''Rhizophora mangle'', also known as the red mangrove, is a salt-tolerant, small-to-medium sized evergreen tree restricted to coastal, estuarine ecosystems along the southern portions of North America, the Caribbean as well as Central America ...
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Sandoricum koetjape
''Sandoricum koetjape'', the santol, sentul, setun or cotton fruit, is a tropical fruit native to maritime Southeast Asia.
Origin and distribution
The santol is native to Malesia and New Guinea. It has been introduced to Indochina, Sri Lanka, In ...
Sloanea berteroana
''Sloanea berteroana'' is a tree of the Caribbean region. The name is often misspelled as ''Sloanea berteriana''.See, for example"Puerto Rico Statewide Assessment and Strategies for Forest Resources." Government of Puerto Rico. Department of Nat ...
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Spondias mombin
''Spondias mombin'', also known as yellow mombin, hog plum, amra or cajazeira, is a species of tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including the West Indies. The tree was introduced by the ...
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Swietenia macrophylla
''Swietenia macrophylla'', commonly known as mahogany, Honduran mahogany, Honduras mahogany, or big-leaf mahogany is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is one of three species that yields genuine mahogany timber (Swietenia), the ot ...
Terminalia myriocarpa
''Terminalia myriocarpa'', the East Indian almond, is a tree species in the genus ''Terminalia'' found in Southeast Asia.
Ecology
The larvae of the moth '' Acrocercops terminaliae'' feed on ''T. myriocarpa''.
Chemistry
The phenolic compounds m ...
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Theobroma cacao
''Theobroma cacao'' (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small ( tall) evergreen tree in the Malvaceae family. Its seedscocoa beansare used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. Although the tree is native to the tropi ...
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Vateria indica
''Vateria indica'', the white dammar, is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to the Western Ghats mountains in India. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is a large canopy or emergent tree frequent in tropic ...
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Xylia xylocarpa
''Xylia xylocarpa'' is a species of tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only ...