Xylosandrus discolor

Xylosandrus discolor, is a species of weevil found in Australia, Micronesia, Myanmar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.

Description
Body length of the female ranges from 1.8 to 2.0 mm. Body bicolored. Pronotum light brown. Elytra dark brown. Antennae and legs are yellowish brown. Antennea with 5 funicular segments and obliquely truncate club. Pronotal vestiture of erect and hairy setae. Pronotal base covered with a dense patch of short erect setae. Pronotal disc is densely asperate-punctate. Pronotum consists with lateral costa and carina. Protibiae with 4 to 5 socketed teeth, whereas mesotibiae and metatibiae with 8 to 9 socketed teeth. In elytra, discal striae and interstriae multiseriate is punctate. Diclivital elytral face is steep and abruptly separated from disc. Elytral striae coarsely granulate with appressed hairy setae.

A polyphagous species, it is found in many plants. It is primarily a shoot borer.

Host plants

 * Ailanthus altissima
 * Albizia
 * Allamanda cathartica
 * Bauhinia variegata
 * Camellia sinensis
 * Cassia multijuga
 * Castanopsis fargesii
 * Cedrela toona
 * Chloroxylon swietenia
 * Coffea arabica
 * Coffea robusta
 * Hevea brasiliensis
 * Juglans nigra
 * Machilus indica
 * Mangifera indica
 * Persea americana
 * Pterospermum acerifolium
 * Rhus chinensis
 * Sophora japonica
 * Swietenia mahagoni
 * Tephrosia candida
 * Terminalia myriocarpa
 * Terminalia procera
 * Theobroma cacao
 * Vitis vinifera