Euwallacea similis

TaxID: 1736056

Basic Information

Euwallacea similis

Ambrosia Beetle, Ambrosia beetle

Euwallacea similis, is a species of weevil native in the Oriental region through to Australia but shows a cosmopolitan distribution due to introduction to many parts of the world.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Euwallacea

similis

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Photos (0 photos)

No photos available.

Morphological Features

Adult female: body small, elongate, red-brown. Pronotum subsquared, 2.88–3.13× as long as wide. Declivity with interstriae 1 broadened laterally, bearing a large median tubercle and many small granules (median tubercles rarely absent).

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

PAOLO TOCCAFONDI, SALVATORE VITALE, DOMENICO RIZZO, LAURA LUONGO. 2025. FIRST REPORT IN EUROPE OF EUWALLACEA SIMILIS (FERRARI) (COLEOPTERA CURCULIONIDAE SCOLYTINAE XYLEBORINI). Redia

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (4 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Guatemala Absent —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Nicaragua Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (49 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

37
Present
12
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
American Samoa Present —
Australia Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Brazil Absent —
Bhutan Present —
Cambodia Present —
China Present
Cameroon Present —
Costa Rica Absent —
Egypt Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_039881215.1 Chromosome 179 3719 4716 -

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature