Coptoborus puertoricensis (Bright & Torres, 2006), 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/F6DD7577-E4DB-5888-B2E3-A760367B2395
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft (2021-06-16 20:29:14, last updated 2024-11-26 17:01:03)
scientific name	Coptoborus puertoricensis (Bright & Torres, 2006)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Coptoborus puertoricensis (Bright & Torres, 2006) comb. nov. Figure 13J-L, P View Figure 13

Theoborus puertoricensis Bright & Torres, 2006: 414.

Coptoborus puertoricensis Bright, 2005 [sic]: Wood 2007: 398.

Theoborus puertoricensis Bright & Torres: Bright 2019: 275.

Type material.

Holotype (CNCI), not examined.

New records.

None.

Diagnosis.

2.2-2.4 mm, 2.6-2.7 × as long as wide ( Bright and Torres 2006). This species is distinguished by the elytral apex attenuate and weakly emarginate, declivital interstriae 2 convex, declivital interstriae 1-3 denticulate, denticles on interstriae 2 minute, distinctly smaller than those of interstriae 1 or 3, posterolateral margin of declivity with interstriae 3 and 9 joining, forming a carina and continuing submarginally to apex and declivity shagreened and dull.

Similar species.

C. solitariformis .

Distribution.

Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.

Biology.

This species has been extensively collected via trapping and has been recorded from petioles of Cecropia schreberiana ( Urticaceae ) ( Bright 2019).

Remarks.

The treatment of this species was based on the examination of a specimen authoratively identified by Bright from San Germán, Puerto Rico (MSUC) (see Bright 2019).

References

Bright, DE, Torres, JA, 2006. Studies on the West Indian Scolytidae (Coleoptera) 4. A review of the Scolytidae of Puerto Rico, U. S. A. with descriptions of one new genus, fourteen new species and notes on new synonymy (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 76: 389 - 428

Bright, DE, 2019. A taxonomic monograph of the bark and ambrosia beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Scolytidae). Studies on West Indian Scolytidae (Coleoptera) 7. Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 12: 1 - 491

Wood, SL, 2007. Bark and ambrosia beetles of South America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Brigham Young University, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum; Provo