New species, new records and synonymy of Brazilian species of Hypothenemus Westwood, 1834 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Author
Atkinson, Thomas H.
of Texas Insect Collection, Biodiversity Center. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Author
Flechtmann, Carlos A. H.
Department of Plant Protection, FEIS / UNESP, Ilha Solteira, São Paulo, Brazil
text
Insecta Mundi
2021
2021-01-29
2021
846
1
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5041370
1942-1354
5041370
A9BBF063-AEC9-48AC-B5B6-6553C19208DA
Hypothenemus novateutonicus
(
Schedl 1951
)
Ptilopodius novateutonicus
Schedl 1951: 105
Hypothenemus novateutonicus
(Schedl)
.
Wood 2007: 506
Bright (2019)
treated
Trischidias
Hopkins, 1911
as a junior synonym of
Hypothenemus
Westwood, 1834
, because the characters used to separate the two genera were inconsistent and overlapped. In general, we have no argument with this position based on morphology and
Johnson et al. (2020)
provide molecular data from two species formerly assigned to
Trischidias
that support the synonymy. However, species included in
Trischidias
form a compact group which differ from most other New World species of
Hypothenemus
. Specifically, they have a robust, compact body shape, and uniseriate, erect setae on the interstriae without any confused ground vestiture. The
holotype
of
Ptilopodius novateutonicus
(NMW)
was examined by the first author and clearly belongs in this group, not with other species of
Hypothenemus
as treated by
Wood (2007)
.
New Species