A review of the genus Dryocoetiops Schedl, with new species, new synonymy and a key to species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
Author
Sanguansub, Sunisa
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-12-19
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10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.4
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Procryphalus petioli
(Beaver)
comb. n.
Dryocoetiops petioli
Beaver 1990: 281
.
Taxonomy.
We have examined the
type
series (NHML, RAB) and further specimens collected by RAB at the
type
locality. The species was provisionally placed in the genus
Dryocoetiops
on the suggestion of S. L. Wood who ex- amined some specimens from the original collection (
Beaver 1990
). However, dissections have shown that males are present, apparently indistinguishable from females using external morphology, and there is probably a 1: 1 sex ratio, unlike
Dryocoetiops
. B. Jordal (personal communication,
January 2015
) has found that the male genitalia are of the cryphaline
type
.
Jordal and Cognato (2012)
, and
Gohli
et al
. (2017)
have shown, based on multiple genetic loci, that the species is closely related to two species of the cryphaline genus,
Procryphalus
Hopkins, 1915
(
P. fraxini
(Berger, 1916)
,
P. mucronatus
(Leconte, 1879))
. The species is morphologically very distinct from these species, but it is provisionally transferred here to
Procryphalus
.
Distribution.
Thailand
.
Biology.
Collected only from the petioles of fallen leaves of
Manglietia garrettii
Craib (Magnoliaceae)
, incorrectly given as
M. garelli
in
Beaver (1990)
. The beetles bored into the base of the petiole. The species appears to be monogamous. Immature stages were not found in the galleries, and it is possible that leafstalks are used primarily as a ‘refuge’ in the absence of other suitable breeding material.