The bark and ambrosia beetles of Bhutan (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae): a synopsis with three new species of Scolytinae
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand.
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
0000-0002-5173-3736
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. smith 462 @ msu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5173 - 3736
smith462@msu.edu
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-08
5174
1
1
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journal article
115950
10.11646/zootaxa.5174.1.1
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Euwallacea fornicatus
(Eichhoff)
complex *
Xyleborus fornicatus
Eichhoff, 1868: 151
.
Euwallacea fornicatus
(Eichhoff)
:
Wood 1989: 173
.
Euwallacea fornicatus
is one species in a complex of at least four sibling species (
Smith
et al.
2019
). The species are most reliably separated through COI barcoding sequences (
Gomez
et al.
2018
,
Smith
et al.
2019
). Such sequences are not available for the
two specimens
recorded here, but we justify recording the presence of the complex in
Bhutan
because the members of the complex are economically important as pests of tea, fruit and other trees, both in parts of their native distribution, and where they have been introduced in the
United States
,
Israel
,
South Africa
and elsewhere (e.g., Mendel
et al.
2017;
Stouthamer
et al
. 2017
; VanRooyen
et al
. 2021).
New record.
Bhutan
, W, Distr.
Samchi
,
Puntsheling
,
300m
,
16‒17.vi.1988
,
C. Holzschuh
(2) (
NKME
)
.
Distribution.
Members of the complex are native to the region from
Sri Lanka
,
India
, South
China
and
Taiwan
, through Southeast Asia and
Indonesia
to New
Guinea
, and the Pacific Is.
Biology.
The species in the complex are all polyphagous. Due to the economic importance of the complex, there is a large literature. Various aspects of the biology of the species are described by e.g.,
Cooperband
et al.
(2016
, 2017), Mendel
et al.
2017,
Stouthamer
et al.
(2017)
,
Byers
et al.
(2018)
,
Carrillo
et al.
(2020)
.