Debus fallaxoides (Schedl) Rabaglia & Beaver & Johnson & Schmaedick & Smith, 2020

Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, Zootaxa 4808 (1), pp. 171-195 : 180

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9BE4A28B-EC09-4526-99E6-8F1F716A6F24
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340673
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ED6487A2-1079-2B1F-809D-8AF2221C3C7E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Debus fallaxoides (Schedl)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

* Debus fallaxoides (Schedl) comb. nov.

Xyleborus fallaxoides Schedl, 1955: 302 View in CoL .

Hulcr & Cognato (2010) described the genus Debus for species formerly placed in Xyleborus View in CoL that have an emarginate elytral apex and a declivity that is usually impressed or excavated with sides elevated and surrounded by teeth or spines. This species has the characters of the genus and is here moved to Debus .

Schedl (1955) described this species based on a specimen from ‘Samoa’ with no indication of whether the specimen came from Samoa or American Samoa. The species also occurs in Fiji ( Beaver 1995).

Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl. : Afono , 12–23 i 2013, Malaise trap in Rhus 2° forest, -14.2682 -170.6502, N. Leifi coll. (1, RABC, 1, ASCC). Other locations: Tutuila Isl.: Fagaalu, Masausi; Ta‘ū Isl.: Ta‘ū, 14 v–5 vi 2018, Ethanol-baited multifunnel trap in coastal rainforest, -14.2517 -169.5013, M. Schmaedick coll. (1, ASCC) GoogleMaps .