Euwallacea posticus (Eichhoff)

Storer, Caroline G., Breinholt, Jesse W. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2015, Wallacellus is Euwallacea: molecular phylogenetics settles generic relationships (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), Zootaxa 3974 (3), pp. 391-400 : 396

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3974.3.6
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:16011FB9-6E31-4F53-A028-8E68ED8156FF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5624734
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scientific name	Euwallacea posticus (Eichhoff)
status	comb. nov.

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Euwallacea posticus (Eichhoff) : new combination

Xyleborus posticus Eichhoff, 1868: 281 View in CoL .

Xyleborus posticus Eichhoff View in CoL : Wood & Bright, 1992: 764, cotype.

Specimens examined. Mexico (Reitter coll., “cotype” No. 53842, Eichhoff det., USNM), Honduras, Atlantida Department. Pico Bonito (17 indiv.), CURLA station (28 indiv.) (C. Storer coll. 2013, JH).

Comments. Eichhoff’s type specimen is lost ( Wood & Bright 1992), but a “cotype” apparently identified by Eichhoff is deposited in the USNM collection (microphotograph examined). The species is transferred from Xyleborus to Euwallacea based on its well-supported placement within the new genus in the presented molecular phylogeny, and based on the agreement of morphological characters. It is is similar to other Euwallacea specis, particularly E. andamanensis (Blandford) . Note that the 12th issue of the Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, in which X. posticus was described, is dated 1868, but it was actually published in 1869 (D. E. Bright, pers. comm.).