Pseudips orientalis (Wood and Yin, 1986)

Cognato, Anthony I. & Smith, Sarah M., 2024, Taxonomic Review of Pseudips Cognato (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Ipini) Inferred from Morphology and a DNA-Based Phylogeny, The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2), pp. 239-254 : 248

Pseudips orientalis (Wood and Yin, 1986) ( Figs. 7–10 )

Ips orientalis Wood and Yin 1986: 461 .

Pseudips orientalis (Wood and Yin) : Cognato 2000: 365.

Orthotomicus orientalis (Wood and Yin) : Wood 2007: 340.

Pseudips orientalis (Wood and Yin) : Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009: 81.

Type Material. Holotype, male, and nine paratypes, NMNH, examined.

New Records. None.

Diagnosis. Characters including broadly conical, not subcapitate, denticles of the elytral declivital margin and a frontal fovea and medial epistomal tubercle differentiate this species from the remaining Pseudips species.

Host. Picea spp.

Distribution. CHINA: Tibet.

Comments. Wood and Yin (1986) and Wood and Bright (1992) both listed the holotype as being deposited in IZAS. The holotype and all paratypes are in the NMNH. Wood and Yin (1986) diagnosed the species as without a frontal fovea and tubercle but described the species as with both attributes. However, the male holotype has the frontal fovea and tubercle. A mixed type series of both P. orientalis (Tibet) and P. yak (Sichuan) was the cause of the apparent confusion.

Figures

Figs. 3–10. Pseudips species. P. concinnus, male: 3) Habitus, dorsal view; 4) Habitus, lateral view; 5) Frontal view; 6) Declivital view. P. orientalis, male holotype (USNMENT00912429): 7) Habitus, dorsal view; 8) Habitus, lateral view; 9) Frontal view; 10) Declivital view.