One hundred eighteen taxonomic changes among Xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
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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
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Author
Beaver, Roger A.
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Author
Sittichaya, Wisut
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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
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-10-05
5194
2
151
175
journal article
158408
10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1
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1175-5326
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Ambrosiophilus semirufus
(
Schedl, 1959
)
stat. res., comb. nov.
Xyleborus semirufus
Schedl, 1959: 499
.
Remarks.
This species was previously considered a synonym of
Ambrosiodmus obliquecauda
(
Motschulsky, 1863
)
(here placed in
Euwallacea
,
see below) by
Wood (1989: 170)
. Images of the
lectotype
of
Phloeotrogus obliquecauda
and a
paratype
of
X. semirufus
were examined and compared by SMS and RAB. Both species have somewhat similar elytral declivital sculpturing with two or three pairs of large tubercles on interstriae 2, however they clearly differ in form, especially in the form of the pronotum with is quadrate in dorsal profile in
E. obliquecauda
and rounded in
A. semirufus
. The species has the characteristics of
Ambrosiophilus
given above for
A. bispinosulus
and is here transferred to that genus.
Distribution.
Sri Lanka
.