Neochetina bruchi Hustache 1926

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, Zootaxa 5719 (2), pp. 151-206 : 155

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7F7EB5B-AF3C-4BE9-9839-F75342943E2D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17891655
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627-FFD1-AB2A-FF48-FC688BDE9744
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neochetina bruchi Hustache 1926
status

Treatment

Neochetina bruchi Hustache 1926 View in CoL

Neochetina bruchi Hustache 1926: 222 View in CoL [ Type locality: Province Buenos Aires, Argentina]

Sri Lankan records. Elawella et al. (2007).

Distribution. Sri Lanka , USA (Florida), Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, South Africa, India, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia.

Remarks. This weevil is a weed biological control agent used to manage water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes Martius ( Pellegrini et al. 2018) .

Genus Tadius Pascoe 1885

Tadius Pascoe 1885: 253 . [ Type species: Tadius erirhinoides Pascoe 1885 ]

Afghanocryptus Voss 1961: 247 . [ Type species: Afghanocryptus amseli Voss 1961 (= Tadius laticollis Faust 1898 )] Pseudotadius Legalov 2016: 75. [ Type species: Tadius laticollis Faust 1898 ]