Scolytodes canalis Wood, 1974

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Scolytodes canalis Wood, 1974

Scolytodes amabilis Wood, 1975 . syn. nov.

Wood (1975) described S. amabilis with no comparison to S. canalis , a species which he described the year before. Female holotypes of the two species were collected in the same locality and are nearly identical; they may differ in the female frons by the length of the long median setae and by the less pronounced rows of elevated granules on the lower part, but these differences are very small. A new collection from Guatemala ( Table 1) indicates slight variation in both traits. The two high altitude locations are only separated by 300 km.