Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff)

Beaver, R. A. & Liu, L. Y., 2010, An annotated synopsis of Taiwanese bark and ambrosia beetles, with new synonymy, new combinations and new records (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 2602, pp. 1-47 : 27

97. Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff)

Xyleborus fornicatus Eichhoff, 1868: 151 .

Distribution: From the Indian subcontinent throughout Southeast Asia to New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific islands. Imported to and established in both eastern and western North America ( Haack 2006), and in other areas including Madagascar and Panama. First recorded from Taiwan by Schedl (1952a). [4]

Hosts: Strongly polyphagous, attacking almost all the major tree families of the Asian tropics ( Browne 1961). In Taiwan, recorded from Camellia thea (Theaceae) by Schedl (1952a), and from Brownea sp. (Leguminosae) by Huang et al. (2003).

Biology: Further details of the biology are given by Browne (1961) and Kalshoven (1959). The species is well-known as a pest of tea plantations in Sri Lanka and southern India, and can become a pest of fruit and other plantation trees ( Beaver et al. 2008).