Circular hole on fruits and seeds of tamarind both in tree and storage.
Adult: Small grey coloured beetle.
Egg - Laid singly, glued to the surface of the pod (in fields) or on grains (in stores). Fresh eggs are translucent, orange cream in colour, changing to greyish white with age.
Grub - Fleshy, curved, creamy white in colour with black mouth parts.
Pupa - Pupation takes place in a pupal cell prepared beneath the seed coat.
Brownish grey beetle with characteristic elevated ivory like spots near the middle of the dorsal side.
It is small, short, and active with long conspicuous serrate antenna.
Elytra do not cover the abdomen completely, which is called as pygidium.
Adults are short lived, it is harmless and do not feed on storage produce at all
