Amasa aspersa (Sampson, 1921)

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2020, A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China, ZooKeys 983, pp. 1-442 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7DED4CE2-934C-4539-945F-758930C927F9

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/05F9DAD3-D4D6-D911-C259-96AAD2F45028

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scientific name

Amasa aspersa (Sampson, 1921)
status

 

Amasa aspersa (Sampson, 1921) Fig. 7A, B, I View Figure 7

Xyleborus aspersus Sampson, 1921: 31.

Amasa aspersus [sic] (Sampson): Wood and Bright 1992: 682.

Type material.

Holotype (NHMUK).

Diagnosis.

3.7-3.9 mm long (mean = 3.82 mm; n = 2); 2.11-2.17 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the dense and strongly confused declivital strial and interstrial punctures with striae and interstriae indistinguishable.

Similar species.

None.

Distribution.

Brunei, East & West Malaysia, Thailand.

Host plants.

All host records are from the genus Eugenia ( Myrtaceae ), and the species appears to have a fixed host association with this family ( Browne 1961b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Amasa

Loc

Amasa aspersa (Sampson, 1921)

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I. 2020
2020
Loc

Amasa aspersus

Wood & Bright 1992
1992
Loc

Xyleborus aspersus

Sampson 1921
1921