Webbia diversicauda Browne 1972

Webbia diversicauda Browne, 1972 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 20; sex: female; disposition: Wisut Sittichaya Private Collection; occurrenceID: 60E00F5C-1824-502D-B196-FFCD2516ED4D; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Curculionidae; genus: Webbia; specificEpithet: diversicauda; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Browne, 1972; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: country: Thailand; locality: Songkhla Province, Hat Yai District; verbatimElevation: 120 m; verbatimCoordinates: 6 ° 55 ' 20.8 " N 100 ° 14 ' 48.8 " E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sittichaya & Smith; Event: eventDate: 12. viii. 2024; habitat: tropical rainforest; Record Level: type: Non type Distribution Thailand: Chaiyaphum, S Nakhon Ratchasima, Narathiwat, Songkhla. Notes The hosts and biology of this species was previously unknown. This species breeds in 1.2-2.5 cm branches of C. inermis (new host recorded). Each gallery (n = 15) contained 2– 3 egg clusters. Progeny numbers ranged from 25–38 at various developmental stages. The recorded sex ratio was highly female-biased, ranging from 24: 1 to 38: 1 (n = 5). In comparatively dry branches of C. innermis, brood size was significantly reduced, with only 5–6 progeny (n = 5) and a single egg cluster per gallery.