Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford)

Beaver, R. A. & Liu, L. Y., 2010, An annotated synopsis of Taiwanese bark and ambrosia beetles, with new synonymy, new combinations and new records (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 2602, pp. 1-47 : 30

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113. Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford) View in CoL

Xyleborus attenuatus Blandford, 1894a: 114 .

Distribution: Japan, Korea, Taiwan. [2a]

Hosts: Recorded from Carpinus (Betulaceae) , Castanea , Fagus , Quercus (Fagaceae) , Malus , Prunus (Rosaceae) . We have not been able to trace actual records of the additional host trees in the genera, Diospyros, Hamamelis and Magnolia , included by Wood and Bright (1992).

Biology: Nakashima et al. (1992) describe the gallery system and characterise the associated ambrosia fungi.

References

Blandford, W. F. H. (1894 a) The rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Part III. Scolytidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1894, 53 - 141.

Nakashima, T., Otomo, T., Owada, Y. & Iizuka, T. (1992) SEM observations on growing conditions of the fungi in the galleries of several ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 65, 239 - 273.

Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2: Taxonomic index. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 13, 1 - 1553.