Euwallacea similis (Ferrari) Ferrari, 2015

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

Euwallacea similis (Ferrari) : new combination

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Xyleborus similis Ferrari, 1867: 23 .

Wallacellus similis (Ferrari) : Hulcr & Cognato, 2010: 29 .

Specimens examined. Keeling (Cocos) Island (holotype, NHMW); Australia, Queensland (1 indiv., BMNH); Ecuador, Pichincha, Santo Domingo (2 indiv., FMNH); China, Yunnan Province, Menglun (5 indiv., C. Bateman coll. 2013, JH); Malaysia, Sabah, Danum Valley (11 indiv., Hulcr coll., JH); Papua New Guinea (10 indiv., BBM); no specific locality given (1 indiv., BMNH); Papua New Guinea, Madang Province (778 indiv., JH), Oro Province (6 indiv., JH), West Sepik (8 indiv., JH); Japan, Okinawa Island, Yona Research Station (1 indiv., Hulcr coll. 2010, JH).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Bayesian phylogenetic reconstruction of Xyleborini with focus on Euwallacea, Ambrosiodmus, Xyleborus sensu stricto and the former Wallacellus. Numbers refer to Bayesian support (percentage of post-burnin trees in which the node occurs); nodes with less than 95 % consensus support have been collapsed. Inset is a dorsal view of Euwallacea posticus. Note the subquadrate pronotum and the elevated posterolateral margins of declivity.