Hidden gems in museum cabinets: new species and new distributional records of Scolytodes (Coleoptera: Scolytinae)
Author
Jordal, Bjarte H.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-23
4504
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journal article
22568
10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.4
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Scolytodes canalis
Wood, 1974
Scolytodes amabilis
Wood, 1975
.
syn. nov.
Wood (1975) described
S. amabilis
with no comparison to
S. canalis
, a species which he described the year before. Female
holotypes
of the two species were collected in the same locality and are nearly identical; they may differ in the female frons by the length of the long median setae and by the less pronounced rows of elevated granules on the lower part, but these differences are very small. A new collection from
Guatemala
(
Table 1
) indicates slight variation in both traits. The two high altitude locations are only separated by
300 km
.