Webbia hatanakai Browne, 1986

Sittichaya, Wisut, Smith, Sarah M. & Beaver, Roger A., 2023, New species, taxonomic changes and newly recorded species of Webbia Hopkins, ambrosia beetles from Thailand and neighbouring countries (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), Zootaxa 5264 (1), pp. 47-63 : 57

Webbia hatanakai Browne, 1986

Webbia hatanakai Browne, 1986: 99 .

Webbia turbinatus [sic] Maiti & Saha, 1986: 104. syn. nov.

Remarks. The holotype and paratypes of W. turbinatus were not deposited in FRI as stated by Maiti & Saha (1986) and could not be examined as part of this study (A. I. Cognato pers. comm). The holotype of W. hatanakai (NHML) , the description and illustration of Maiti & Saha (1986), and two non-type specimens of W. turbinata from the Andaman Islands (NMNH) that bear the same locality and host information as the holotype, and Thailand (RABC), have been compared by RAB and SMS, and found to be conspecific. The body proportions, declivital characters and total length fall within intraspecific variation. Both species were published in 1986, but W. hatanakai on March 25, and W. turbinata in August. W. turbinata is accordingly here placed in synonymy with W. hatanakai .

Distribution. India (Andaman Is.), Philippines (Palawan), Thailand.

Host plants. The species has been recorded from trees in the families Dipterocarpaceae ( Browne 1986; Maiti & Saha 1986), and Euphorbiaceae ( Maiti & Saha 1986) .