Beaverium lantanae (Eggers, 1930)

Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2020, A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China, ZooKeys 983, pp. 1-442 : 1

Beaverium lantanae (Eggers, 1930) Fig. 31A, B, G

Xyleborus lantanae Eggers, 1930: 180.

Ambrosiodmus lantanae (Eggers): Wood and Bright 1992: 675.

Beaverium lantanae (Eggers): Beaver et al. 2014: 32.

Type material.

Holotype (FRI).

New records.

Vietnam: Dong Nai, Cat Tien National Park, E of Crocodile Lake, 11°27'25"N, 107°21'7"E, 120 m, ex pan trap, 21-31.v.1999, D.C. Darling, B. Hubley (RABC, 1).

Diagnosis.

4.1-4.5 mm long (mean = 4.26 mm; n = 5); 2.2-2.28 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the small size; elytral disc convex, without a transverse saddle-like depression; declivital posterolateral margins costate, never carinate; and boundary between elytral disc and declivity smoothly rounded.

Similar species.

Beaverium latus , B. magnus .

Distribution.

India (Karnataka, Nicobar Is, West Bengal), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam*.

Host plants.

Recorded from six genera in five families in India ( Beeson 1961), and evidently polyphagous.

Figures

Figure 31. Dorsal, lateral and declivital view of Beaverium lantanae, 4.1 - 4.5 mm (A, B, G), B. latus, 6.0 mm (C, D, H), and B. magnus, 5.0 - 5.6 mm (E, F, I).