Ambrosiophilus nodulosus (Eggers, 1941)

Gomez, Demian F., Rabaglia, Robert J., Fairbanks, Katherine E. O. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2018, North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 768, pp. 19-68 : 23-24

Ambrosiophilus nodulosus (Eggers, 1941) Fig. 4

Xyleborus nodulosus Eggers, 1941.

Xyleborus pernodulus Schedl, 1957. Synonymy Browne 1961.

Ambrosiophilus peregrinus Smith & Cognato, 2015. Synonymy Smith et al. 2017.

Type material.

Holotype female; Fukien [Fujian Province, China]; ZMFK.

Distribution.

Asia; North America (introduced): United States: Georgia.

Notes.

A recent introduction in the U.S. ( Smith and Cognato 2015, Smith et al. 2017), A. nodulosus is likely to expand its distribution. Differs from A. atratus by its smaller size and by the presence of evenly spaced tubercles on the declivity.