Ten newly recorded species of xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini) from Thailand
Author
Sittichaya, Wisut
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
text
ZooKeys
2019
862
109
127
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.862.34766
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.862.34766
1313-2970-862-109
Amasa
opalescens (Schedl, 1937)
Fig. 4
A-E
Xyleborus opalescens
Schedl, 1937: 550
Amasa opalescens
(Schedl):
Wood and Bright 1992
: 683.
Diagnosis.
Large, 4.5 mm long (
N
= 1); moderately stout, 2.5 times longer than wide; body shining, declivity opalescent, brown in color; eye deeply emarginated, almost completely divided; antennal club with first segment smaller than second (type 4;
Hulcr et al. 2007
); pronotum from dorsal view round (type 1;
Hulcr et al. 2007
), from lateral view tall (type 2;
Hulcr et al. 2007
), anterior margin round, armed with 6 small asperities, anterior portion of pronotum densely asperate, base shagreened; elytra 1.24 times longer than pronotum, lateral sides subparallel, widest at declivital summit, disc shining, striae minutely punctate, interstriae four times broader than striae, broadest at declivital summit, declivital margin unarmed, declivity smooth,opalescent, strial punctures large, irregularly spaced.
Figure 4.
Amasa opalescens
(Schedl, 1937)
A
lateral view
B
dorsal view
C
posterolateral view
D
front
F
declivity.
Material examined.
Thailand, Bang Lang National Park, Yala Province, Thailand-Malaysia border,
5°48'51.8"N
101°17'14.7"E
, ex. small branches of unknown tree, 01.ii.2014 (1).
Distribution.
'Borneo'
, East and West Malaysia, Vietnam. New to Thailand.
Biology.
Recorded from
Eugenia
sp. and
Tristania
sp. (
Myrtaceae
), and possibly with a fixed association with this family (
Browne 1961
).
Remarks.
This species can be distinguished from all other
Amasa
recorded in Thailand by its large size (4.5 mm), moderately stout form (2.5 times longer than wide), declivital summit entirely carinate without teeth on first interstriae, declivity smooth, subshining, opalescent, strial punctures large, irregularly spaced, and eye deeply emarginated, almost completely divided.