A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China
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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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Microperus nudibrevis (Schedl, 1942)
Fig. 68E, F, K
Xyleborus nudibrevis
Schedl, 1942a: 195.
Coptodryas nudibrevis
(Schedl):
Wood and Bright 1992
: 825.
Microperus nudibrevis
(Schedl):
Beaver et al. 2014
: 55.
Type material.
Holotype
(NHMW).
New records.
China: Hong Kong, Tai Po Kau, vi.2017, J. Skelton (MSUC, 2). Japan: Okinawa, Yona, xi.2011, J. Hulcr, ex
Castanopsis
(MSUC, 1). Vietnam: Dong Nai, Cat Tien N.P.,
11.42232
,
107.42834
, 128 m, 19.ii.2017, VN74, A.I. Cognato, T.A. Hoang, ex bottle trap (MSUC, 1).
Diagnosis.
1.5-1.6 mm long (mean = 1.53 mm; n = 5); 2.5-2.91
x
as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the elytral disc flat with short and steep obliquely truncate declivity; posterolateral carina strong and denticulate; declivital interstriae straight from base to apex, never laterally broadened; declivital interstriae densely granulate, granules uniformly sized and spaced from declivital summit to elytral apex; and declivital face opalescent, subshiny.
Similar species.
Microperus kirishimanus
,
M. latesalebrinus
,
M. perparvus
.
Distribution.
China* (Hong Kong), Japan*, East & West Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam*.
Host plants.
Recorded from five genera in five different families of trees, and presumably polyphagous (
Beaver et al. 2014
).
Remarks.
Browne (1961a)
suggests that the female lays eggs in clusters over a considerable period, the offspring from each cluster occupying a separate brood chamber.