Arixyleborus puberulus (Blandford)

Hulcr, Jiri, 2010, Taxonomic changes in palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 56, pp. 105-119 : 105

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.56.520

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Arixyleborus puberulus (Blandford)
status

 

Arixyleborus puberulus (Blandford) View in CoL

Xyleborus puberulus (Blandford, 1896)

Xyleborus hirtipennis Eggers, 1940, syn. n.

Arixyleborus hirtipennis (Eggers): Browne 1955, syn. n.

Specimens examined.

Indonesia, Java ( Xyleborus hirtipennis , lectotype, USNM); Sarawak, Malaysia ( Xyleborus puberulus , holotype, BMNH).

Comments.

Lectotype of Arixyleborus hirtipennis bears all essential features of Arixyleborus puberulus , only the declivital rugosities more organized into rows, shining area of elytra smaller, less clearly distinguished from rugose area. These are exceptionally plastic in Arixyleborus puberulus , Arixyleborus hirtipennis represents small deviation in the large range of variation of declivital surface in Arixyleborus puberulus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Scolytinae

Genus

Arixyleborus