Coptoborus incultus (Wood, 1975), 2021

Smith, Sarah M. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2021, A revision of the Neotropical genus Coptoborus Hopkins (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), ZooKeys 1044, pp. 609-720 : 609

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.144.62246
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:66F01A49-D324-48A8-AC26-69BF3374894C
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/60B9B57D-31D5-52C8-ABC8-13ABF5E149A8
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft (2021-06-16 20:29:14, last updated 2024-11-26 17:01:03)
scientific name	Coptoborus incultus (Wood, 1975)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Coptoborus incultus (Wood, 1975) comb. nov. Figure 8D-F, N View Figure 8

Xyleborus incultus Wood, 1975b: 400.

Theoborus incultus (Wood): Wood 1982: 773.

Type material.

Holotype (NMNH), examined.

New records.

None.

Diagnosis.

2.3 mm, 2.6 × as long as wide ( Wood 1975b). This species is distinguished by the elytral apex attenuate and weakly emarginate, declivital interstriae 2 granulate only on basal third, declivital interstriae 2 strongly impressed, posterolateral margin of declivity with interstriae 3 and 9 joining, forming a carina and continuing submarginally to apex, declivital interstriae distinctly impressed, anterior margin of pronotum with a pair of projecting serrations.

Similar species.

C. atlanticus , C. crassisororcula .

Distribution.

Mexico (Campeche), Panama ( Panamá).

Biology.

This species is only known from a Cecropia ( Urticaceae ) branch ( Wood and Bright 1992).

References

Wood, SL, 1975b. New synonymy and new species of American bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Part II. Great Basin Naturalist 35: 391 - 401

Wood, SL, 1982. The bark and ambrosia beetles of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), a taxonomic monograph. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 8: 1 - 1359

Wood, SL, Bright, DE, 1992. A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), part 2: Taxonomic index. The Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 13: 1 - 1553

Figures

Figure 8. Dorsal, lateral, frontal and declivital view of Coptoborus incomptus holotype, 1.7 - 1.9 mm (A-C, M), C. incultus holotype, 2.3 mm (D-F, N), C. inornatus paratype, 1.8 mm (G-I, O), C. janeway holotype, 2.0 mm (J-L, P). All photographs by SMS except G-I, O by T. H. Atkinson, copyright National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., published by permission.