Xyleborus mutilatus
Xyleborus sampsoni
Xyleborus banjoewangi
Xyleborus taitonus
North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
Gomez, Demian F.
Rabaglia, Robert J.
Fairbanks, Katherine E. O.
Hulcr, Jiri
ZooKeys
2018
768
19
68
WHZN
Blandford, 1894
Blandford
1894
Insecta
Curculionidae
Cnestus
CoL
Animalia
Cnestus mutilatus
Coleoptera
8
27
Arthropoda
species
mutilatus
XyleborusmutilatusBlandford, 1894. Xyleborus sampsoniEggers, 1930. Synonymy Wood 1989. Xyleborus banjoewangiSchedl, 1939. Synonymy Kalshoven 1960. Xyleborus taitonusEggers, 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 mutilatuswas first collected in North America from Mississippi in 1999 ( Schiefer and Bright 2004). This species is easily distinguished from other Xyleboriniby the truncate and short elytra, with a circular declivity delimited by a distinct carina posteriorly and laterally.