Prosoplus bankii (Fabricius)

Swezey, O. H., 1942, Miscellaneous Families of Guam Coleoptera, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 150-171 : 170

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5167701
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5182984
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scientific name	Prosoplus bankii (Fabricius)
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5. Prosoplus bankii (Fabricius) View in CoL .

Lamia bankii Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 176, 1775.

Prosoplus ban!?ii (Fabricius) Sharp, Fauna Hawaii. 2 (3): 114, 1900. Schultze, Philip. Jour. Sci. 11, D: 115, 1916.

Piti , April 28, Bryan ; Piti , April 30, from Hibiscus tiliaceus, Usinger; Piti , May 15, Usinger; Merizo , June 11, on corn, Swezey; Piti , June 15, Swezey; Fonte Valley , Aug. 7, on weeds, Swezey; Dededo , Aug. 11, on corn, Swezey; Piti , Aug. 13, 19, at light, Oct. 27, Swezey; Yigo , Nov. 8, attracted to corn tassels, Nov. 13, on seed cluster of palm, Coccothrinax species , Swezey. Fullaway, 1911.

This species has a wide distribution from Java, Borneo, and Philippines through the Malay Archipelago to Northern Australia, also Hawaii. Although we did not rear this common longicorn, it doubtless breeds in dead stems of many kinds of plants in Guam as it does in Hawaii.