Xyleborinus schaufussi (Blandford)

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2018, New synonymy, new combinations and other taxonomic changes in Japanese xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4521 (3), pp. 391-403 : 397

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4521.3.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5131216
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scientific name	Xyleborinus schaufussi (Blandford)
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Xyleborinus schaufussi (Blandford) View in CoL

Xyleborus schaufussi Blandford, 1894: 117 View in CoL .

Xyleborinus schaufussi (Blandford) View in CoL : Wood & Bright, 1992: 816.

Xyleborus kraunhiae Niisima, 1910: 14 View in CoL . syn. n.

Taxonomy: Type specimens of Xyleborus kraunhiae View in CoL could not be located in the NIAES collection so our observations were based on Niisima’s description. The morphology of the species described by Niisima is unambiguously that of Xyleborinus schaufussi View in CoL except the size is given as 2.20 mm. This is smaller than the size of other specimens (NMNH, MSUC, RAB), which range between 2.30¯2.50 mm, and smaller than that reported for X. schaufussi View in CoL of 2.40¯3.00 mm by Niisima (1910). Despite this slight size discrepancy, we are confident that these two species are the same and Xyleborus kraunhiae View in CoL is here placed in synonymy.

References

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

Niisima, Y. (1910) Die Borkenkaefer Nord- und Mittel-Japans. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 3, 1 - 18.

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