New synonymy, new combinations and other taxonomic changes in Japanese xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
Author
Cognato, Anthony I.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-15
4521
3
391
403
journal article
27954
10.11646/zootaxa.4521.3.5
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1175-5326
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Cyclorhipidion bispinum
(Nobuchi)
comb. n.
Xyleborus bispinus
Nobuchi, 1981
: 147
.
Xyleborus kumanoensis
Nobuchi, 1985
: 25
(unnecessary new name for
X. bispinus
Nobuchi, 1981
nec Schedl, 1979).
Taxonomy:
The
holotype
of
Xyleborus bispinus
was not available for study, but photos were examined (
NIAES 2018
). The species is transferred to
Cyclorhipidion
Hagedorn, 1912
because of the following characters: most of body covered with dense pubescence and very abundant minute punctures, pronotum and elytra rounded, with no conspicuous edges or carinas, pronotum type 2 (viewed dorsally), antennal club type 3, visible scutellum and lack of mycangial tufts.