Euwallacea declivispinatus (Schedl)

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 : 395-396

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scientific name	Euwallacea declivispinatus (Schedl)
status	new combination

Treatment

Euwallacea declivispinatus (Schedl) : new combination

Xyleborus declivispinatus Schedl, 1969: 216 .

Ambrosiodmus declivispinatus (Schedl) : Wood & Bright, 1992: 672.

Xyleborus declivispinatus (Schedl) : Hulcr and Cognato, 2013: 151.

Specimens examined. New Guinea, Chimbu Province, Karamui (paratype, FICB); New Guinea, Oro Province, Kanga (30 indiv., JH)

Comments. Hulcr & Cognato (2013) provide notes on biology and taxonomic history of this species with striking morphology. Adults of this species have been observed to create galleries in the same way as other large specimens of Euwallacea , further supporting the taxonomic move. They create extensive tunnels that branch several times on one horizontal plane. Adults colonize large moist branches or trunks, typically fallen in water.

References

Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2013) Xyleborini of New Guinea: a taxonomic monograph. The Entomological Society of America, Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Annapolis, MD, 176 pp.

Schedl, K. E. (1969) Bark-beetles and pin-hole borers (Scolytidae and Platypodidae) intercepted from imported logs in Japanese ports, III. 258 Contribution. Kontyu, 37, 202 - 219.

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