Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863

Sittichaya, Wisut, Lin, Ching-Shan, Smith, Sarah M., Pornsuriya, Chaninan & Cognato, Anthony I., 2024, Two new species of Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863 ambrosia beetle from Taiwan and Thailand (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), ZooKeys 1217, pp. 247-262 : 247-262

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1217.129707

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:541D9AC9-DD07-4435-ACA2-867C5F302D34

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14042077

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7AA144DC-FF02-5139-857A-6397E432DF12

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scientific name

Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863
status

 

Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863 View in CoL

Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863: 515. View in CoL

Platydactylus Eichhoff, 1886: 25. Preoccupied by Goldfuss, 1820. View in CoL

Eurydactylus Hagedorn, 1909: 733. (new name for Platydactylus Eichhoff, 1866 nec. Goldfuss 1820; preoccupied by Laferté-Sénectère, 1851). Synonymy: Hagedorn 1910: 110. View in CoL

Type species.

Eccoptopterus sexspinosus Motschulsky, 1863 = Scolytus spinosus Olivier, 1800 .

Diagnosis.

1.70-5.90 mm, stout, 1.94-2.3 × as long as wide; pronotum short and round, robust, broader and larger than elytra; pronotal anterior margin armed with a pair of prominently protruding denticles; pronotal base bearing a dense tuft of setae; elytra short, excavated, with denticles around its margins; declivity impressed, the impressed areas extending nearly to elytral base; metatibiae conspicuously enlarged and flattened.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Loc

Eccoptopterus Motschulsky, 1863

Sittichaya, Wisut, Lin, Ching-Shan, Smith, Sarah M., Pornsuriya, Chaninan & Cognato, Anthony I. 2024
2024
Loc

Eurydactylus

Hagedorn M 1910: 110
Hagedorn M 1909: 733
Goldfuss 1820
1909
Loc

Platydactylus

Eichhoff WJ 1886: 25
Goldfuss, 1820
1886
Loc

Eccoptopterus

Motschulsky V 1863: 515
1863