Cosmopolites sordidus

TaxID: 206492

Basic Information

Cosmopolites sordidus

banana borer, Banana weevil, Banana Root Borer

Cosmopolites sordidus, commonly known as the banana root borer, banana borer, or banana weevil, is a species of weevil in the family Curculionidae. It is a pest of banana cultivation and has a cosmopolitan distribution, being found in all parts of the world in which bananas are grown. It is considered the most serious insect pest of bananas.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Cosmopolites

sordidus

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Cosmopolites sordidus
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(c) Richard Ong@BY-NC
Cosmopolites sordidus
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(c) Chan Kam Kong@BY-NC
Cosmopolites sordidus
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(c) juju98@BY-NC
Cosmopolites sordidus
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(c) juju98@BY-NC
Cosmopolites sordidus
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(c) Richard Ong@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (13 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Burundi Quarantine pests —
Bahrain Quarantine pests 2003
Egypt Abesent 2018
Iran Absent 2018
Israel Quarantine pest 2009
Jordan Absent 2013
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Oman Absent —
French Polynesia Present —
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Distribution (41 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Brazil Present —
China Present —
Cameroon Present —
Cook Islands Present —
Colombia Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Cuba Present —
Dominican Republic Present —
Ecuador 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_031761425.1 Contig 1068 706 706 -

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