Cylas formicarius

TaxID: 197179

Basic Information

Cylas formicarius

Sweet Potato Weevil, Sweet potatoe weevil, sweet potato weevil

Cylas formicarius, the sweet potato weevil, is a species of sweet potato weevil in the beetle family Brentidae. It is found in Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America, Oceania, South America, Southern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and temperate Asia.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Brentidae

Cylas

formicarius

nan

Photos (0 photos)

No photos available.

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (5 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Daucus carota subsp. sativus Host
Dioscorea Host
Ipomoea Host
Ipomoea batatas Host
Manihot esculenta Host

Quarantine Status (5 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Grenada Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pest 2018
New Zealand Quarantine pest 2000
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (89 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

85
Present
4
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Anguilla Present —
Netherlands Antilles Present —
American Samoa Present —
Australia Present
Bangladesh Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Barbados Absent —
Brunei Darussalam 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_029955315.1 Scaffold 391 2934 36172 -
FASTA GFF3

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (2192 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SICOA571-18 - COI-5P 307 United States 1978-07-08 25.85, -97.422
MYENT139-17 BOLD:ADH8715 COI-5P 658 Myanmar 2015-05-26 11.06514, 98.91581
MACOL840-10 - COI-5P 292 Pakistan 2010-05-12 31.3833, 73.0167
HABA079-22 BOLD:AAC6125 COI-5P 646 United States 2020-06-09 19.7287, -155.095
GMMVA35909-22 BOLD:AAC6125 COI-5P 652 Mexico 2017-09-13 20.032, -97.106
GMAHE1596-18 BOLD:AAC6125 COI-5P 652 Australia 2017-02-13 -19.282871, 146.80086
GBMNE14847-21 BOLD:AEM6663 COI-5P 593 Taiwan - -
GBMNE14846-21 BOLD:AEM6663 COI-5P 593 Taiwan - -
GBMNE14845-21 BOLD:AEM6663 COI-5P 593 Taiwan - -
GBMNE14844-21 BOLD:AEM6663 COI-5P 593 Taiwan - -
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Literature