Amasa Lea, 1894
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5196.2.2 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8107F44A-C50A-43BB-9D28-0E990E8AA0FC |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7231803 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B387EC-1E26-FFB7-FF54-FCA8FE31D232 |
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Plazi |
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Amasa Lea, 1894 |
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Amasa Lea, 1894: 322 View in CoL .
Pseudoxyleborus Eggers, 1930: 206 View in CoL . Wood 1984: 223.
Anaxyleborus Wood, 1980: 90 View in CoL . Wood 1983: 647.
Type species. Amasa thoracica Lea, 1894 View in CoL = Tomicus truncatus Erichson, 1842 View in CoL
Diagnosis. Length 1.9−5.4 mm, 1.8−3.4× as long as wide. Amasa are distinguished by the truncate declivity, margined with a circumdeclivital ring; declivital face with three striae; antennal club flattened, typically type 4 with club sutures sinuate, two sutures visible on posterior face or rarely without sutures, type 5; protibiae typically slender, inflated and granulate on posterior face (rarely distinctly triangular or unarmed); anterior margin of pronotum with a row of serrations; scutellum flat, flush with elytral surface; procoxae contiguous or narrowly separated, rarely moderately separated; mycangial tufts absent; eyes deeply emarginate or rarely completely divided.
Similar genera: Xylosandrus Reitter , Cyclorhipidion Hagedorn , Pseudowebbia Browne , Truncaudum Hulcr & Cognato , and Webbia Hopkins.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Amasa Lea, 1894
| Sittichaya, Wisut & Smith, Sarah M. 2022 |
Anaxyleborus
| Wood, S. L. 1983: 647 |
| Wood, S. L. 1980: 90 |
Pseudoxyleborus
| Wood, S. L. 1984: 223 |
| Eggers, H. 1930: 206 |
Amasa
| Lea, A. M. 1894: 322 |