Phloeosinopsioides pumilus Wood

Beaver, Roger A., 2011, A review of the genus Phloeosinopsioides Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 3012, pp. 59-63 : 63

Phloeosinopsioides pumilus Wood

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Phloeosinopsoides [sic] pumilus Wood, 1985: 274 .

Phloeosinopsioides pumilus Wood: Wood & Bright, 1992 : 239.

Taxonomy. I have examined male and female paratypes of this species (SLW) from Papua New Guinea, and compared them with specimens from Australia (BPBM, RAB). The species can be distinguished from P.formosanus by its smaller size, more strongly excavated male frons, and the narrower pronotum with narrower scales, and from P.l e a i in addition by the complete lack of ground vestiture on the elytra, and the deeper and coarser strial punctures. The species was previously known only from the type series, but is recorded here from the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia.

Distribution. Australia, Papua New Guinea.

New records. AUSTRALIA, N[orthern] T[erritory], Arnhem Land, Maningrida, 5 m, 17.iii.1961 (1) (J.L. & M.Gressitt) (BPBM); Darwin, m. v. light trap, 8.i.1964 (1) (J.Sedlacek) (BPBM); Queensland, Mt. Glorious State For., flight intercept trap [in canopy of] Argyrodendron actinophyllum , subtrop. rainforest, 6–13.iii.1986 (1), 5– 12.vi.1986 (1); 28.v.–6.vi.1987 (1), 18–25.vii.1987 (1) ( Y. Basset) (RAB).

Biology. Recorded from an unidentified liana by Wood (1985).

Figures

FIGURE 1 – 6. Lateral and dorsal views of Phloeosinopsioides species. 1 – 2: P. formosanus, length 2.3 mm; 3 – 4: P. l e a i, length 2.5 mm; 5 – 6: P. pumilus, length 1.6 mm.