Cyclorhipidion sus (Schedl)

Hulcr, Jiri, 2010, New genera of Palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) based on congruence between morphological and molecular characters, Zootaxa 2717, pp. 1-33 : 12-13

Cyclorhipidion sus (Schedl) , comb. n.

Xyleborus sus Schedl, 1973 b

Arixyleborus sus ( Schedl, 1979b)

Specimens examined. C. sus : New Guinea, Moroko, Loria (holotype, NHMW); New Guinea, Morobe Province, Bulolo (1, Hulcr det. FICB); New Guinea, Morobe Province, Bulolo (1, Hulcr det. NHMW); New Guinea, Oro Prov. (32, Hulcr det., MSUC).

Comparative specimens: C. multipunctatum (Browne) : Malaysia, Borneo, Tatau, imported to Nagoya, Japan (holotype, BMNH); New Guinea, Kupa Range ( FICB, Hulcr det.); PNG, Chimbu Prov. (13, Hulcr det., MSUC).

Comments. C. sus shares two characters with Arixyleborus : several rows of tubercles on posterior face of protibia, and rows of tubercles in elytral striae. The two characters are also present in some Cyclorhipidion , notably the almost identical sympatric C. multipunctatum . C. sus and C. multipunctatum are sister taxa in molecular phylogeny (100% posterior probability, Cognato et al. 2010). C. sus shares many synapomorphies with Cyclorhipidion in general: rounded lateral outline of pronotum, thick femora, rounded dorsal outline of abdomen; dense uniform vestiture; antennal club type 3; small and numerous denticles on tibial edges; and the outer edges of all tibiae are evenly convex.