1. PaDIL Species Factsheet Scientific Name: Sphenophorus sp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae: Sphenophorini) Common Name Weevil Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/140331 Image Library New Zealand Biosecurity Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/ Partners for New Zealand Biosecurity image library Landcare Research — Manaaki Whenua http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/ MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/ 2. Species Information 2.1. Details Specimen Contact: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory - [email protected] Author: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory Citation: MAF Plant Health & Environment Laboratory (2011) Weevil(Sphenophorus sp.)Updated on 5/4/2014 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0) 2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/maf-border/Pest/Main/140331 2.3. Facets Groups: Beetles Commodity Overview: Horticulture Commodity Type: Yam Status: NZ - Exotic Pest Status: 0 Unknown Distribution: 0 Unknown Host Family: 0 Unknown 2.4. Other Names Billbugs Curculionid Beetle Curculios Snout Beetles 2.5. Diagnostic Notes **Adult** Robust, usually large, elliptic oval. Body glabrous, often with claylike coating, or with dense, glabrous coating. Antenna with funicle of 6 articles; scape projected at least past anterior margin of eye; antennal club elongate. Pronotum longer than wide; disk often with elevated smooth lines or spaces. Elytra usually wider than pronotum, their tips separately rounded widely exposing pygidium. Metapisternum narrow. Tarsus with article 3 with ventral pilosity restricted to anterolate areas, median area largely glabrous, article 3 narrow, subequal in width to article 2 (many) or broad, wider than article 2 (few). Tarsus with article 5 ventrally evenly rounded at middle of apex. Pygydium exposed at apex of elytra. **References** - Anderson, R.S. (2002). Curculionidae. In: Arnett, R.H., Jr. Thomas, M.C., Skelley, P.E. & Frank, J.H. (eds), _American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea_. Vol. 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 722-815. - Downie, N.M. & Arnett, R.H., Jr. (1996). _The beetles of Northeastern North America_, Vols. 1 & 2. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1720 pp. 2.6. References - Anderson, R.S. (2002). Curculionidae. In: Arnett, R.H., Jr. Thomas, M.C., Skelley, P.E. & Frank, J.H. (eds), _American Beetles: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea_. Vol. 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 722-815. - Downie, N.M. & Arnett, R.H., Jr. (1996). _The beetles of Northeastern North America_, Vols. 1 & 2. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1720 pp. 3. Diagnostic Images COL151 COL151 Dorsal - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Head Oblique - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF COL151 COL151 Lateral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Posterior Oblique - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF COL151 COL151 Pronotum - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Ventral - Adult: Caroline Harding MAF Results Generated: Saturday, September 25, 2021 .