Xylosandrus amputatus (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 : 45

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.768.24697

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Xylosandrus amputatus (Blandford, 1894)
status

 

Xylosandrus amputatus (Blandford, 1894) View in CoL Fig. 19

Xyleborus amputatus Blandford, 1894.

Xyleborus melli Eggers, 1926. Synonymy Beaver 2010.

Type material.

Holotype female; Japan: Higo; BMNH.

Distribution.

Asia; North America (introduced): Florida, Georgia.

Notes.

Xylosandrus amputatus was first discovered in the US from Florida in 2010 ( Cognato et al. 2011). Distinguished by the truncate elytral declivity with a carina forming a complete cirumdeclivital ring.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Xylosandrus