Ambrosiophilus wilderi (Beeson), 2020

Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, Zootaxa 4808 (1), pp. 171-195 : 179-180

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9BE4A28B-EC09-4526-99E6-8F1F716A6F24
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340625
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ED6487A2-1078-2B1F-809D-8E132073391E
treatment provided by	Plazi (2020-07-02 08:11:04, last updated 2023-10-31 18:32:37)
scientific name	Ambrosiophilus wilderi (Beeson)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Ambrosiophilus wilderi (Beeson) comb. nov.

Xyleborus wilderi Beeson, 1929: 235 View in CoL .

Ambrosiodmus wilderi (Beeson) View in CoL : Wood & Bright 1992: 681.

Xyleborus upoluensis Schedl, 1951: 152 View in CoL . Synonymy: Beaver 1976: 542.

Hulcr & Cognato (2009) described the genus Ambrosiophilus for species of Ambrosiodmus Hopkins View in CoL and Xyleborus Eichhoff View in CoL that had a flat pronotal disc that lacked asperities, an antennal club type 3 (see Hulcr et al. 2007) that is flattened and rounded, and a steep declivity. Beaver (1976) reports that galleries of this species were closely associated with galleries of Beaverium swezeyi (Beeson) , indicating possible mycocleptoparasitism, an ecological characteristic of Ambrosiophilus ( Hulcr & Cognato 2010) . Wood & Bright (1992) list this species in Ambrosiodmus View in CoL . The species has the generic characters of Ambrosiophilus and is here transferred to that genus.

Beeson (1929) described X. wilderi based on specimens from Fagasa and Pago Pago on Tutuila. X. upoluensis Schedl (1951a) from Upolu was synonymized with wilderi by Beaver (1976). This species is endemic to the Samoan islands and Fiji.

Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Afono, Aoloau, Fagaitua, Iliili, Leone, Malaeimi; Ofu Isl.: Ofu; Olosega Isl.: Olosega; Ta‘ū Isl. : Faleasao, Fitiuta .

References

Beaver, R. A. (1976) The biology of Samoan bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 65, 531 - 548. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300006210

Beeson, C. F. C. (1929) Platypodidae and Scolytidae. In: Insects of Samoa and the Samoan terrestrial Arthropoda. Part IV. Coleoptera (4) [1927 - 1935]. Trustees of the British Museum, London, pp. 217 - 248.

Hulcr, J., Dole, S. A., Beaver, R. A. & Cognato, A. I. (2007) Cladistic review of generic taxonomic characters in Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Systematic Entomology, 32, 568 - 584. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2007.00386. x

Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2009) Three new genera of Oriental Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Zootaxa, 2204 (1), 19 - 36. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2204.1.2

Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2010) New genera of Palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) based on congruence between morphological and molecular characters. Zootaxa, 2717 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2717.1.1

Schedl, K. E. (1951 a) Fauna Samoanus (Scolytoidea), I. 109. Contribution to the morphology and taxonomy of the Scolytoidea. Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 20, 131 - 156

Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera). Part 2. Taxonomic index. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, 13, 1 - 1533.