One hundred eighteen taxonomic changes among Xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) 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 Author Beaver, Roger A. 161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand. Author Sittichaya, Wisut 0000-0001-6200-1285 Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand. wanakorn 62 @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6200 - 1285 & Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. cognato @ msu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6436 - 2447 wanakorn62@hotmail.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-10-05 5194 2 151 175 journal article 158408 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1 ca4aa334-4646-495b-9116-1766a7376728 1175-5326 7147098 C6F3069F-6EC1-4FAC-8870-FC0B53BD45EF Ambrosiophilus immitatrix ( Schedl, 1975 ) stat. res., comb. nov. Xyleborus immitatrix Schedl 1975: 367 . Xyleborus imitatrix Schedl unjustified emendation ( Schedl 1980: 124 ). Remarks. Images of the holotype (NHMW) were examined. The species was previously considered a synonym of Xyleborus judenkoi Schedl, 1959 ( Hulcr & Cognato 2013: 152 ). An image of an X. judenkoi paratype (NHMW) and a paratype (NHMUK) were examined. However, the species is distinctly different from X. judenkoi with A. immitatrix bearing tubercles along declivital interstriae 1 which are absent in X. judenkoi . The species has the characteristics of Ambrosiophilus given above for A. bispinosulus and is here transferred to that genus. Schedl (1980) proposed an emendation of X. immitatrix to X. imitatrix but this act was unjustified in accordance with article 33.2.3 ( ICZN 1999 ) because Schedl only used the spelling immitatrix in the publication of the original description ( Schedl 1975 ). Distribution. Papua New Guinea .