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Notes upon the Habits of Ceylonese Ambrosia-beetles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Edward R. Speyer
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The ambrosia-beetles of Ceylon comprise a number of genera of Scolytidae and Platypodidae. It is proposed only to deal with beetles belonging to the former family which are included in the subfamily Cryphalinae, adding a few notes on the Platypodids.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1923 , pp. 11 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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* The beetle walks round in a circle while cutting the entrance, the abdomen describing a circle concentric with the latter, and shears off small fragments of the plant tissues with the mandibles.