Xyleborus pleiades Samuelsonı 1981

Gillett, Conrad P. D. T., Honsberger, David & Rubinoff, Daniel, 2019, Rediscovery of the Hawaiian endemic bark beetle Xyleborus pleiades Samulesonı 1981 on Moloka‘iı with records of three new exotic bark beetles for the island (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), Journal of Natural History 53 (23), pp. 1481-1490 : 1485

Xyleborus pleiades Samuelsonı 1981 .

Length: 4.45 – 4.60 mm. Figure 3 (a-d). New island record for Moloka ‘ i.

5 females: Moloka ‘ i Island , TNC Kamakou Preserve, 21.1182; −156.9084, 1177 m, mixed mesic forest along roadside, Lindgren-funnel trap 3, set on Cheirodendron trigynum , 30. ix. – 12. x. 2018, leg. C.P.D.T. Gillett & D. Honsberger ( UHIM) .

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Figure 3. Female Xyleborus pleiades collected at TNC Kamakou, Moloka‘i, 12 October 2018. Length: 4.45 mm. (a) Lateral view of left side. (b) Lateral view of right ventral side. (c) Dorsal view. (d) Oblique view of leftside of elytraldeclivity.(e) Female of X.pele collected on HawaiiIsland.Oblique view of left sideof elytral declivity.