Sueus chatterjeei Smith & Cognato, 2024

Cognato, Anthony I., Smith, Sarah M., Schiffer, Matthew & Li, You, 2024, A taxonomic review of Sueus Murayama, 1951 ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Hyorrhynchini) aided by molecular phylogenetic analyses, Zootaxa 5477 (4), pp. 475-493 : 482-483

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.4.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12733319
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sueus chatterjeei Smith & Cognato
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Sueus chatterjeei Smith & Cognato , sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype, female, India: [West] Bengal , Jalpaiguri, Gazalduba [=Gajoldoba], 16-X-1933, N.C. Chatterjee, S.L. Wood Collection, USNMENT01595085 ( NMNH).

Diagnosis. Length 2.4 mm, 2.09 × longer than wide; elytral declivity acutely tapered to the apex, apex 1/4 width of the declivity base.

Description. Female: Length 2.4 mm, 2.09 × longer than wide. Frons weakly convex, with a distinct, sharply elevated, longitudinal carina extending from epistomal margin to upper level of eyes; surface dull, densely and finely punctate-granulate, with fine, brown setae. Antennal funicle and club not observable. Pronotum 1.77 × wider than long, widest slightly behind middle; lateral margin evenly arcuate, more strongly converging on anterior half; surface densely, moderately punctate, with scattered, long, golden-brown setae. Elytra 1.52 × longer than wide, 2.69 × longer than pronotum; sides weakly arcuate, declivity tapered to narrowly rounded apex; discal striae very narrow, shining, lightly impressed, more strongly impressed toward declivity, strial punctures fine, shallow; discal interstriae much wider (2–3 ×) than striae, granulate, with three or four rows of long, fine, semi-erect, golden-brown setae. Declivity convex; surface as on disc except striae distinctly more deeply impressed, interstriae slightly narrower, fewer granules. Third tarsal segment entire.

Etymology. Named in honor of the collector of the holotype, Nibaran Chandra Chatterjee (1890-1942) and his contribution to forest entomology in India (https://insaindia.res.in/old_website/detail.php?id=N42-0153).

Distribution. India (West Bengal).

Hosts. Unknown. Presumably mycetophagous.