﻿BULLETIN 1393, U. S. DEPAiRTMENT OP AGEICULTUEE 



appeared in literature before this time. It was described in 1710 

 by Ray (55) under the name of Scarabaeus and again by Linne (43) 

 in 1746 under the name of Curculio. In 1798 ClairviUe and Schellen- 

 berg (59, p. 62) erected the genus Calendra for the species granaria 

 and abhreviata. Latreille (41, p- 431) in 1810 designated alhreviata 

 Fab. as the type of the genus Calandra (sic), and in 1838 Schoenherr 

 (60, p. 967) erected the genus Sitophilus to include the species 

 granarius and oryzae. Hence, as noted by Pierce (51, p. 26) in 1919, 

 the correct generic name for the granary weevil is undoubtedly 

 Sitophilus and not Calendra or Calandra. The synonyms of the 

 species are as f oUows : 



Fig. 1.— The granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius): Adult, dorsal view. 

 Enlarged about 38 times 

 Sitophilus granarius Linne 



Curculio granarius Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 378, 1758. ■ 



Curculio segetis Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 381, 1758. 



Rhynchophorus granarius Herbst, Jablonsk. Natursystem., vol. 6, p. 14, 



PL 60, fig. 7, 1795. 

 Curculio policarius Voet, Col., ed. Panz., vol. 4, p. 54, PL 37, fig. 17, 1798. 

 Calendra granaria ClairviUe and Schellenberg, Helv. Ent., vol. 1, p. 62, 1798. 

 Curculio unicolor Marsham, Ent. Brit., p. 275, 1802. 

 Rhynchaenus segetis Latr., Hist. Nat., xi, 193, 1804. 

 Cordyle granarius Thunberg, Nova Acta Ups., vol. 7, p. 112, 1815. 

 Calandra frumentarius Stephens, Cat. Brit. Ins., pt. 1, p. 148, 1829. 

 Sitophilus granarius Schoenherr, Gen. Cure, vol. 4, p. 977, 1838. 

 Sitophilus remotepunctatus GylL, Schh., Gen. Cure, vol. 4, p. 979, 1838. 



