Amasa aspersa (Sampson)

Beaver, R. A., Sittichaya, W. & Liu, L-Y., 2014, A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 3875 (1), pp. 1-82 : 20

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3875.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:66613335-DA8E-4EE7-A0A4-5FE405B15437

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5130784

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/11038800-FFFC-FF8D-FF41-30116ECD0A13

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scientific name

Amasa aspersa (Sampson)
status

 

16. Amasa aspersa (Sampson)

Xyleborus aspersus Sampson, 1921: 31 View in CoL .

Amasa aspersus View in CoL [sic] (Sampson): Wood & Bright, 1992: 682.

Thai distribution: S: Nakhon Sri Thammarat ( Schedl 1936a as Xyleborus aspersus View in CoL ). The species has not been recorded again in Thailand.

Other distribution: Malaysia (E. and W.). The species also occurs in Brunei Darussalam (R. A. Beaver, unpublished records). (3)

Taxonomy: Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (2009) point out that the generic name, Amasa Lea , is female rather than male (contra Wood & Bright 1992, Bright & Skidmore 1997, 2002). Morphological species limits are often indistinct in Amasa , and this has led to conflicting interpretations and synonyms (see below).

Biology: All host records are from the genus Eugenia (Myrtaceae) , and the species appears to have a fixed host association with this family ( Browne 1961a). The gallery system has a radial, unbranched entrance tunnel leading to a single, large, more or less oblong chamber in the longitudinal plane ( Browne 1961a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Amasa

Loc

Amasa aspersa (Sampson)

Beaver, R. A., Sittichaya, W. & Liu, L-Y. 2014
2014
Loc

Amasa aspersus

Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. 1992: 682
1992
Loc

Xyleborus aspersus

Sampson, F. W. 1921: 31
1921
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