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A new Weevil pest of Sweet Potatoes in Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Guy A. K. Marshall
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The Imperial Bureau of Entomology has recently received from Mr. A. H. Ritchie, Government Entomologist in Jamaica, specimens of a weevil which he found to be doing serious injury to the tubers of a crop of sweet potatoes. The insect belongs to the sub-family Cryptorrhynchinae and proves to be an undescribed species of the genus Palaeopus, Fst. (Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 51 & 60).

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 1917 , pp. 269 - 272
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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* In his generic diagnosis Faust states that joint 1 is longer than 2; but I have examined cotypes of both his species, in which, these joints appear to me to be equal.