New species and new records of Amasa Lea, 1894 ambrosia beetles from Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)
Author
Sittichaya, Wisut
Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
0000-0002-5173-3736
Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA smith 462 @ msu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5173 - 3736
smith462@msu.edu
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-10-19
5196
2
197
210
journal article
169975
10.11646/zootaxa.5196.2.2
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1175-5326
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Amasa
Lea, 1894
Amasa
Lea, 1894: 322
.
Pseudoxyleborus
Eggers, 1930: 206
.
Wood 1984: 223
.
Anaxyleborus
Wood, 1980: 90
.
Wood 1983: 647
.
Type
species.
Amasa thoracica
Lea, 1894
=
Tomicus truncatus
Erichson, 1842
Diagnosis.
Length
1.9−5.4 mm
, 1.8−3.4× as long as wide.
Amasa
are distinguished by the truncate declivity, margined with a circumdeclivital ring; declivital face with three striae; antennal club flattened, typically
type
4 with club sutures sinuate, two sutures visible on posterior face or rarely without sutures,
type
5; protibiae typically slender, inflated and granulate on posterior face (rarely distinctly triangular or unarmed); anterior margin of pronotum with a row of serrations; scutellum flat, flush with elytral surface; procoxae contiguous or narrowly separated, rarely moderately separated; mycangial tufts absent; eyes deeply emarginate or rarely completely divided.
Similar genera:
Xylosandrus
Reitter
,
Cyclorhipidion
Hagedorn
,
Pseudowebbia
Browne
,
Truncaudum
Hulcr & Cognato
, and
Webbia
Hopkins.