A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Author
Beaver, Roger A.
161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand
Author
Cognato, Anthony I.
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Coptodryas elegans (Sampson, 1923)
Fig. 36C, D, J
Xyleborus elegans
Sampson, 1923: 288.
Coptodryas elegans
(Sampson):
Wood 1989
: 171.
Type material.
Syntype
(NHMUK).
New records.
China: 28.iv.1938,
Litchi chinensis
(NMNH, 1).
Diagnosis.
2.1-2.4 mm long (mean = 2.29 mm; n = 5); 2.2-2.4
x
as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the dense tuft of setae along the elytral base extending to interstriae 8; body glabrous except for pronotal and elytral bases; striae and interstriae uniseriate punctate; elytral disc strongly shiny, declivity shagreened; declivity bisulcate, interstriae 2 to striae 3 weakly to moderately depressed, interstriae 4-7 carinate, interstriae 4 moderately tumescent and sharply carinate from base to apical 1/2; declivital posterolateral margin carinate to interstriae 7; protibiae obliquely triangular; pronotum rounded, robust (type 5) when viewed laterally, and rounded (type 1) when viewed dorsally.
Similar species.
Coptodryas concinna
,
C. nudipennis
.
Distribution.
China* (no specified province), India (Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java), Vietnam.
Host plants.
Recorded from three different families of trees and probably polyphagous (
Beaver et al. 2014
).
Remarks.
Records of this species in
Beaver et al. (2014)
should be referred to
Coptodryas concinna
(Beeson).