Coccotrypes flavicornis (Blandford) Beaver & Smith & Sanguansub, 2019

Beaver, Roger A., Smith, Sarah M. & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2019, A review of the genus Dryocoetiops Schedl, with new species, new synonymy and a key to species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4712 (2), pp. 236-250 : 247

Coccotrypes flavicornis (Blandford) comb. n.

Dryocoetes flavicornis Blandford 1895: 320 .

Dryocoetiops flavicornis (Blandford) : Wood & Bright 1992: 587.

Taxonomy. Wood & Bright (1992) state that the holotype is in NHML. We have examined the single specimen of this species in NHML. It is not labelled as a type specimen, although the species was described from a single specimen ( Blandford 1895), and no other specimens of the species have been found in NHML. The specimen in NHML bears the following labels: Ceylon /G. Lewis/1910-320 [printed]// Bogawantalawa/ 4800-5200 ft / 28.ii.-12.iii.1882 [printed]// Dryocoetes ?/ flavicornis Bld. [in Blandford’s handwriting]. On the underside of the card bearing the specimen is written 3.3.82. The specimen comes from the type locality, agrees with Blandford’s description, and bears a determination label in Blandford’s handwriting. Even if it is not the holotype, it is certainly conspecific.

Blandford (1895) was in some doubt as to the generic placement of the species, and noted resemblances to species such as Dryocoetes dinoderoides , now a synonym of Dryocoetiops moestus (see above). Presumably because of this statement, Wood and Bright (1992) transferred the species to Dryocoetiops although without giving any indication that this was a new combination. The species does not have the characteristics of Dryocoetiops . The pronotum is more elongate, is not steeply convex anteriorly and lacks a pronounced summit near the middle. The summit is close to the base. The elytral declivity is much less steep than in species of Dryocoetiops . The species belongs in the large genus, Coccotrypes , and is transferred here to that genus. The species has not been recorded again since its original description.

Distribution. Sri Lanka.

Biology. Unknown.