Heteroborips Reitter, 1913

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2020, A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China, ZooKeys 983, pp. 1-442 : 1

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scientific name	Heteroborips Reitter, 1913
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Heteroborips Reitter, 1913: 79.

Type species.

Bostrichus cryptographus Ratzeburg, 1837; monotypy.

Diagnosis.

2.5-4.0 mm, 2.2-3.25 × as long as wide. In this region Heteroborips is distinguished by the distinctive elytral mycangium appearing as a distinctly impressed area immediately adjacent to the scutellum on each elytron.

Similar genera.

Tricosa , Xyleborinus , Xyleborus .

Distribution.

Distributed throughout Europe and temperate Asia including the Himalayas. One species is introduced and established in USA ( Hoebeke and Rabaglia 2008).

Gallery system.

The gallery system of Heteroborips is unusual among xyleborines and lies wholly between the bark and wood ( Mandelshtam et al. 2019).

Remarks.

The genus has been recently reviewed by Mandelshtam et al. (2019).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Curculionidae
SubFamily	Scolytinae