Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar 1823) Calandra sordidus Germar 1823: 299. Sphenophorus cribricollis Walker 1859b: 218. [Type locality: Ceylon] Sphenophorus maderensis Hoffmann 1938: 48. Curculio mendicus Olivier 1791: 480. [NO] Sphenophorus striatus Fåhraeus 1845: 251. Sri Lankan records. Walker (1859b); Motschulsky (1863 —Nura Ellia); Heller (1901: 339 —Bentota, Colombo, Negombo, Puttalam, Weligama); Csiki (1936); Voss (1957 —Akurana); Zimmerman (1968); Singh & Ramesha (2018). Distribution. Australia, Brazil, Canary Islands, Chile, China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hainan, Yunnan), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, France, Fiji, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Madagascar, Madeira Archipelaga, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Polynesia (Cook Island), Puerto Rico, French Polynesia (Tonga, Tuvalu), Samoa, Seychelles, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, United States of America (Florida), Vietnam. Biological notes. The banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus, is the most important insect pest of bananas and plantains (Musa spp.).

Published as part of Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5719 (2) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17891524