Three new genera of oriental Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Author
Hulcr, Jiri
Author
Cognato, Anthony I.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2204
19
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189700
f48b8ba7-9ec3-455c-8087-9082458a6f72
1175-5326
189700
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Ambrosiophilus sexdentatus
(
Eggers, 1940
)
comb. n.
Previous genus:
Streptocranus
Compared to
holotype
in USNM
Diagnosis:
Antenna
type
4–5. Posteriorly prolonged pronotum. Prolonged elytra, declivity impressed along suture, surrounded by an elevated sulcus from elevated interstriae 2 and 3. The sulcus reaches almost to the bases of elytra, and is armed with conspicuous teeth. The species is variable in size.
Length:
2.8–3.2 mm
.
Discussion.
The species was described as
Xyleborus
by
Eggers (1940)
, then transferred to
Ambrosiodmus
(
Wood & Bright, 1992
)
, followed by a transfer to
Streptocranus
(
Hulcr
et al.
, 2007
)
. Its placement into
Ambrosiophilus
herein is based on a survey of more species and characters than by
Hulcr
et al
. (2007)
, and has 100% posterior probability in a multi-gene Bayesian phylogenetic analysis (Cognato
et al.
, unpublished).The
holotype
from Java has the same arrangement of teeth and striae as specimens from New
Guinea
. It is slightly shorter (5–10%), the declivital excavation is a little shallower and enclosed by less conspicuous wall.
Ambrosiodmus optatus
(which may eventually be transferred to
Ambrosiophilus
) from
Australia
closely resembles
A. sexdentatus
, but differs in the shallowly excavated declivity. Both
A. sexdentatus
and
A. optatus
have mostly orange to light brown color.
Biology:
Recorded as an associate of
Beaverium sundaensis
(J.H., unpubl.) but the ecological significance of the record is uncertain.
Examined material:
Indonesia
, Java, Batoerrad, (
holotype
,
USNM
);
PNG
: Madang Prov. (8), Oro Prov. (2), J. Hulcr
2002–2006
.