Cnestus mutilatus (Blandford, 1894)

Gomez, Demian F., Rabaglia, Robert J., Fairbanks, Katherine E. O. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2018, North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 768, pp. 19-68 : 27-28

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scientific name	Cnestus mutilatus (Blandford, 1894)
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Cnestus mutilatus (Blandford, 1894) View in CoL Fig. 6

Xyleborus mutilatus Blandford, 1894.

Xyleborus sampsoni Eggers, 1930. Synonymy Wood 1989.

Xyleborus banjoewangi Schedl, 1939. Synonymy Kalshoven 1960.

Xyleborus taitonus Eggers, 1939. Synonymy Wood and Bright 1987.

Type material.

Holotype female; Japan; BMNH.

Distribution.

Asia; North America (introduced): United States: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas; Oceania.

Notes.

Cnestus mutilatus was first collected in North America from Mississippi in 1999 ( Schiefer and Bright 2004). This species is easily distinguished from other Xyleborini by the truncate and short elytra, with a circular declivity delimited by a distinct carina posteriorly and laterally.