Tricosa jacula Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020

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

Tricosa jacula Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020 Fig. 77E, F, K

Tricosa jacula Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020 (in Cognato et al. 2020a): 549.

Type material.

Holotype (IZAS).

Diagnosis.

3.2 mm long (n = 1); 2.91 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the elytral discal striae and interstriae clearly uniseriate punctate; pronotum anterior margin unarmed; and protibiae distinctly triangular ( Cognato et al. 2020a).

Similar species.

Fraudatrix melas , Tricosa metacuneolus .

Distribution.

China (Guizhou).

Host plants.

This species has been reported from Populus ( Salicaceae ) ( Cognato et al. 2020a).

Figures

Figure 77. Dorsal, lateral and declivital view of Tricosa cattienensis holotype, 2.7 - 3.1 mm (A, B, I), T. indochinensis holotype, 3.2 - 3.4 mm (C, D, J), T. jacula holotype, 3.2 mm (E, F, K), and T. metacuneolus paratype, 2.4 - 2.5 mm (G, H, L).