Coptoborus paurus (Wood, 2007) Smith & Cognato, 2021

Smith, Sarah M. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2021, A revision of the Neotropical genus Coptoborus Hopkins (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), ZooKeys 1044, pp. 609-720 : 609

Coptoborus paurus (Wood, 2007) comb. nov. Figure 12J-L, P

Theoborus paurus Wood, 2007: 388.

Type material.

Holotype (NMNH), examined.

New records.

None.

Diagnosis.

1.7 mm, 2.1 × as long as wide ( Wood 2007). This species is distinguished by the broadly rounded and entire elytral apex, posterolateral margin rounded, anterior margin of pronotum with two projecting serrations, declivital interstrial setae much longer than the combined width of striae 1 and interstriae 1, declivital interstriae 2 sulcate, and interstriae 1 granulate, interstriae 3 denticulate (those larger than interstriae 1 granules), interstriae 2 with a staggered row of minute obscure granules.

Similar species.

C. doliolum , C. erwini .

Distribution.

Costa Rica (Heredia).

Biology.

This species has only been collected from Protium panamensis ( Burseraceae ) ( Wood 2007).

Figures

Figure 12. Dorsal, lateral, frontal and declivital view of Coptoborus osbornae holotype, 1.5 - 1.7 mm (A-C, M), C. panosus holotype, 2.4 mm (D-F, N), C. papillicauda holotype, 2.0 mm (G-I, O), C. paurus holotype, 1.7 mm (J-L, P). All photographs by SMS, except J-L, P copyright National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., published by permission.