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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Debus amphicranoides
(Hagedorn)
*
Xyleborus amphicranoides
Hagedorn, 1908: 379
.
Debus amphicranoides
(Hagedorn)
:
Hulcr 2010: 107
.
This species is newly recorded from
Bhutan
.
New record.
Bhutan
,
Gedu
,
6.viii.1985
,
AS
Padgham
coll. ex
Castanopsis
, CIE A
17491 (3) (
NHML
)
.
Distribution.
Bhutan
,
China
(
Yunnan
),
Indonesia
(
Java
, Mentawai Is,
Sumatra
,
Sulawesi
),
Laos
, East & West
Malaysia
,
Philippines
,
Thailand
,
Vietnam
.
Biology.
The species is polyphagous, and has been recorded from many different host trees (e.g.
Browne (1961)
,
Ohno (1990)
.
Browne (1961)
briefly describes the gallery system, and notes that it attacks not only dying or newly felled trees, but healthy trees through injuries to the bark.