A taxonomic review of Sueus Murayama, 1951 ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Hyorrhynchini) aided by molecular phylogenetic analyses
Author
Cognato, Anthony I.
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
0000-0002-5173-3736
smith462@msu.edu
Author
Schiffer, Matthew
0009-0004-0517-4138
schiff14@msu.edu
Author
Li, You
College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-07-10
5477
4
475
493
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.4.5
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5477.4.5
1175-5326
12733244
99E77135-D62D-40FA-AC50-F53F37C29975
Sueus
Murayama, 1951
Sueus
Murayama, 1951: 1
.
Type
species
Sueus sphaerotrypoides
Murayama, 1951
=
Hyorrhynchus niisimai
Eggers, 1926
, original designation.
Diagnosis.
Length 1.6–3.0 mm, 1.82–2.5
×
longer than wide, body black.
Sueus
is distinguished by the following combination of characters: eyes completely divided without a separating carina in either sex; antennal club less than 1.5
×
longer than wide, forming a slightly flattened cone; female antennal funicle five or six segmented; protibia outer apical angle produced into one conspicuous spine; procoxae widely separated; and dwarf males.
Sueus
can be further distinguished from the other
Hyorrhynchini
genera
Hyorrhynchus
and
Pseudohyorrhynchus
which have eyes completely divided and separated, in part, by a carina (males); antennal club that is 1.5–2.0
×
longer then wide and flattened; antennal funicle six segmented; and males that are comparable to females in size.