The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa
Author
Rabaglia, Robert J.
USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Washington DC, 20250, U. S. A.
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand.
Author
Johnson, Andrew J.
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. andrewjavanjohnson @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3139 - 2257
Author
Schmaedick, Mark A.
American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, 96799, American Samoa,
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, U. S. A.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-07-01
4808
1
171
195
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11
1175-5326
3927891
9BE4A28B-EC09-4526-99E6-8F1F716A6F24
Planiculus bicolor
(Blandford)
Xyleborus bicolor
Blandford, 1894b: 113
.
Planiculus bicolor
(Blandford)
:
Hulcr & Cognato 2010: 22
.
Xyleborus bicolor unimodus
Beeson, 1929: 238
. Synonymy:
Wood 1989: 172
.
Xyleborus rameus
Schedl, 1940: 441
. Synonymy:
Schedl 1958: 147
.
Beeson (1929)
described
Xyleborus bicolor
subspecies
unimodus
from Pago Pago, and
Schedl (1951a)
reported
X. rameus
Schedl
from the Pago- Matafao trail; both are now considered synonyms of
P. bicolor
. The species occurs throughout the Oriental region eastwards to New
Guinea
and the Western Pacific islands.
Current survey records:
American Samoa
: Tutuila Isl.: Aoloau, Auto, Fagaalu, Fagaitua, Leone, Malaeimi, Maloata; Ta‘ū Isl.: Faleasao, Fitiuta, Ta‘ū.