Diuncus taichuensis ( Schedl 1952b )

Hulcr, Jiri & Cognato, Anthony I., 2009, Three new genera of oriental Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 2204, pp. 19-36 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189700

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214202

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scientific name

Diuncus taichuensis ( Schedl 1952b )
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Diuncus taichuensis ( Schedl 1952b) comb. n.

Previous genus: Xyleborus

Discussion. A specimen labeled " Xyleborus taichuensis n. sp. MS Type Eggers" is deposited in USNM. It is not mentioned by Anderson & Anderson (1971). Wood & Bright (1992) indicate the existence of Xyleborus taichuensis Schedl 1952 . A representative of Schedl's species was not available for examination. The validity and identity of X. taichuensis remains uncertain. The manuscript type of X. taichuensis Eggers in USNM is nearly destroyed - it lack limbs, antennae and is mounted in over-abundance of glue. The elytral declivity, which is the only available body part with informative characters, appears to be of the same type as in Diuncus haberkorni : the spines in 2nd and 3rd interstriae are conical, not pointed, the ones in interstriae 3 positioned lower on the declivity.

Examined material: Taiwan, Taichu, ( USNM), manuscript type.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Diuncus

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