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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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630
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Microperus cruralis (Schedl, 1975)
comb. nov.
Fig. 66G, H, L
Xyleborus cruralis
Schedl, 1975b: 456.
Coptodryas cruralis
(Schedl):
Beaver 1995a
: 201.
Type material.
Holotype
(NHMW).
New records.
Cambodia: Siem Reap, Angkor Thom, 26.v.2003, J. Constant, K. Smets & P. Grootaert, ex light trap (RABC, 1). Laos: Vientiane, Gi Sion vill., de Tha Ngone, 28.ii.1965, J.L. Gressitt, ex light trap (BPBM, 1).
Diagnosis.
3.0-3.1 mm long (mean = 3.03 mm; n = 3); 2.5-2.82
x
as long as wide. This species is distinguished by its large size; elytral disc broadly and deeply transversely impressed with a saddle-like depression from scutellum to declivital base; declivity deeply sulcate, its margins lined by large tubercles on interstriae 1 and 3-6; elytral base emarginated from sutural margin to interstriae 4 to accommodate mycangial tuft, mycangial tuft setae long, very dense; and posterolateral costa absent.
Similar species.
Microperus nugax
,
M. sagmatus
,
M. undulatus
.
Distribution.
Cambodia*, Laos*, Thailand.
Host plants.
Unknown.
Remarks.
The species is transferred to
Microperus
because of the following characters: pronotum type 2 (viewed dorsally), antennal club flat, type 3, pronotal disc punctate, and scutellum narrow, minute and convex.