Taxonomy of the Bruchidae^*(Coleoptera) of Northwest India. Part I. Adults

A new species of Callosobruchus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) feeding on seeds of Dunbaria (Fabaceae), a closely related species to a stored-bean pest, C. chinensis

“…C. utidai belongs to a species group which is characterized by long male genitalia, comprising C. chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758), C. cajanis Arora, 1977, C. indica Pajni and Gupta, 1975, C. imitator Kingsolver, 1999 (Linnaeus, 1767), C. rhodesianus (Pic, 1902) (Kingsolver, 1999) and C. latealbus (Pic, 1926) (Tuda, unpublished). C. cajanis is described as having body dark brown, antennae serrate, testaceous, endophallus of male genitalia with a pair of sclerotized plates in middle.…”

“…While pest species are well studied, nonpest species of the genus are less well known in Asia. Recently in this genus, new species have been recorded (Pajni and Gupta, 1975;Arora, 1977;Singal and Pajni, 1990;Kingsolver, 1999) and several non-cultivated host plants have been uncovered for Asian Callosobruchus species (Tuda et al, 2003). Feeding on seeds by Callosobruchus has been reported primarily on economic legumes belonging mainly to the subtribe Phaseolinae (tribe Phaseoleae), e.g., various kinds of beans (64.4%), and the tribe Vicieae, e.g., pea and faba bean (15.6%) (Johnson, 1981).…”

Applied evolutionary ecology of insects of the subfamily Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

“…For example, a recent molecular study found Tuberculobruchus to be polyphyletic (Kergoat, 2005b), indicating a plesiomorphic trait is used for the generic key and revision of the genus using genital morphology may be necessary. Data on recently described species, synonymies and host plants have been actively accumulated from different biogeographic regions of Asia and Africa that would contribute to the understanding of evolutionary diversity of the Old World (e.g., Arora, 1977Arora, , 1980Egorov and Ter-Minassian, 1983;Morimoto, 1990;Anton et al, 1997;Anton, 1999Anton, , 2000Kingsolver, 1999;Tuda, 2003;Johnson et al, 2004;Tuda and Morimoto, 2004; and the New World (e.g., Johnson, 1970;Romero and Johnson, 2000) bean beetles (see also Zacher, 1952;Udayagiri and Wadhi, 1989 for overviews).…”

New seed beetles from Thailand belonging to the Bruchidius mendosus (Gyllenhal, 1839) species-group, and a key to Southeast Asian species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)

“…A number of seed beetles closely related with the paleotropical species Bruchidius mendosus (Gyllenhal, 1839) were described from India (Arora 1977, Sri Lanka (Decelle 1975) and Vietnam (Delobel 2010a(Delobel , b, 2014. Th ey are small to very small beetles, oft en measuring less than 1.5 mm in length, and all those with known host plant feed in the seeds of Fabaceae Desmodieae.…”