First record of Cyrtogenius Strohmeyer in Europe, with a key to the European genera of the tribe Dryocoetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
Author
Faccoli, Massimo
Author
Simonato, Mauro
Author
Toffolo, Edoardo Petrucco
text
Zootaxa
2012
3423
27
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.215247
223c2ba0-10a1-4ace-9c84-45f258408bdd
1175-5326
215247
Cyrtogenius
Strohmeyer, 1910
The genus
Cyrtogenius
includes about 90 species, mainly from Oceania and
Micronesia
(about 49), 25 from Africa and about 16 from Asia (
Wood & Bright 1992
).
Cyrtogenius
species are largely tropical in their distribution, and some breed in seeds or in the pith of twigs, rather than in phloem. The majority of the species are, however, true bark beetles (phloeophagous). Very few of them (
C. luteus
and
C. philippinensis
) are associated with conifers, with a strong preference for pines, whereas all other species develop in tropical broadleave trees and lianas. For the majority of
Cyrtogenius
species (about 65%) the host plant is still unknown (
Wood & Bright 1992
). Some
Cyrtogenius
species are known to be heterosanguineously polygynous (
Wood 1986
).