New species and new records of Amasa Lea, 1894 ambrosia beetles from Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)
Author
Sittichaya, Wisut
Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand
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
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-10-19
5196
2
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journal article
169975
10.11646/zootaxa.5196.2.2
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Amasa circumcisula
(
Schedl, 1954
)
(
Fig. 5
)
Xyleborus circumcisulus
Schedl, 1954: 140
, 151.
Amasa circumcisulus
(Schedl)
[
sic
].
Wood & Bright 1992: 682
.
Diagnosis:
1.93–2.06 mm
long (mean 2.00 mm, n = 3); 2.96–3.17× as long as wide (mean 3.07, n = 3). This species is distinguished by body cylindrical and elongate, pronotum broadly rounded and elongate,
type
8, when viewed dorsally, anterior margin serrate; pronotal disc shagreened; antennal club flat without sutures,
type
5, elytra strial punctures large, declivital face flat except on medial part of apical margin, declivity glabrous and shining; punctures on striae 1 and 2 distinctly larger than on striae 3; interstriae flat and glabrous; interstriae 1 near on medial apical margin with elevated uniseriate small granules.
Similar species:
Amasa similis
(Eggers)
.
New records:
Thailand
:
Narathiwat Province
,
Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary
,
5°47′44″N
,
101°50′07″E
, lowland tropical rainforest,
01.i.2015
(1), 01.iii.15 (2), (
W. Sittichaya
), (1
WSTC
)
.
Distribution:
Indonesia
(
Java
). New to
Thailand
.
Host plants:
Eugenia lineata
(Myrtaceae)
(
Schedl 1954
).
Remarks.
Schedl (1954)
described this species from
Java
without designating a
holotype
. Later (1979) he designated a
lectotype
and
four paralectotypes
all from a similar origin, labelled “Batoerraden, G[gunung]. Slamet,
Java
”. WS compared Thai specimens from the far south with the
lectotype
(NHMW) and concluded that the Thai specimens are similar in length with Schedl’s description (
1.9 mm
) (
Schedl 1954
) and
lectotype
but differ in other body proportions. The
lectotype
has more similar body proportions to the Thai specimens, but slightly differs from Schedl’s original description. These differences among the original description,
lectotype
, and three Thai specimens are summarized in
Table 1
. It is possible that Schedl’s original description may have been an average of more than
one specimen
since no type was indicated at that time, and this may explain the slight differences in length and proportions of the
lectotype
compared to the description.