Cryptoxyleborus acutus (Schedl) Beaver & Hulcr, 2008

Beaver, Roger A. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2008, A Review of the Ambrosia Beetle Genus Cryptoxyleborus Schedl (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 62 (1), pp. 133-153 : 133-153

Cryptoxyleborus acutus (Schedl) new combination

Xyleborus acutus Schedl, 1975:361 .

Webbia acutus (Schedl) : Wood & Bright, 1992:829.

Taxonomy: This species was described from a single specimen collected in

Papua New Guinea ( Schedl 1975). The holotype ( NHMW), the only known

142 specimen, has been examined. Contrary to Schedl’s description, the elytra are 1.6 times as long as the pronotum, and not 1.3 times. The species was placed without comment in the genus Webbia Hopkins by Wood and Bright (1992). However, the form of the antenna, combined with the strongly cuneiform elytra, clearly place it in Cryptoxyleborus . Schedl (1975) noted that the species was allied to Cryptoxyleborus vestigator (Schedl) (as Xyleborus vestigator ).

Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Biology: Unknown.