Cyrtogenius Strohmeyer, 1910

Faccoli, Massimo, Simonato, Mauro & Toffolo, Edoardo Petrucco, 2012, First record of Cyrtogenius Strohmeyer in Europe, with a key to the European genera of the tribe Dryocoetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 3423, pp. 27-35 : 28

Cyrtogenius Strohmeyer, 1910

The genus Cyrtogenius includes about 90 species, mainly from Oceania and Micronesia (about 49), 25 from Africa and about 16 from Asia ( Wood & Bright 1992). Cyrtogenius species are largely tropical in their distribution, and some breed in seeds or in the pith of twigs, rather than in phloem. The majority of the species are, however, true bark beetles (phloeophagous). Very few of them ( C. luteus and C. philippinensis ) are associated with conifers, with a strong preference for pines, whereas all other species develop in tropical broadleave trees and lianas. For the majority of Cyrtogenius species (about 65%) the host plant is still unknown ( Wood & Bright 1992). Some Cyrtogenius species are known to be heterosanguineously polygynous ( Wood 1986).