Hypothenemus novateutonicus ( Schedl 1951 )

Atkinson, Thomas H. & Flechtmann, Carlos A. H., 2021, New species, new records and synonymy of Brazilian species of Hypothenemus Westwood, 1834 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Insecta Mundi 2021 (846), pp. 1-33: 5

Hypothenemus novateutonicus ( Schedl 1951)   Edit

Ptilopodius novateutonicus Schedl 1951: 105   Edit

Hypothenemus novateutonicus (Schedl)   Edit . Wood 2007: 506

Bright (2019) treated Trischidias Hopkins, 1911   Edit as a junior synonym of Hypothenemus Westwood, 1834   Edit , because the characters used to separate the two genera were inconsistent and overlapped. In general, we have no argument with this position based on morphology and Johnson et al. (2020) provide molecular data from two species formerly assigned to Trischidias   Edit that support the synonymy. However, species included in Trischidias   Edit form a compact group which differ from most other New World species of Hypothenemus   Edit . Specifically, they have a robust, compact body shape, and uniseriate, erect setae on the interstriae without any confused ground vestiture. The holotype of Ptilopodius novateutonicus (NMW)   Edit was examined by the first author and clearly belongs in this group, not with other species of Hypothenemus   Edit as treated by Wood (2007).

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