Xyloctonus mauritianus Menier, 1974

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2024, Integrated taxonomy, biology and biogeography of the Afrotropical genus Xyloctonus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 71 (1), pp. 67-84 : 67

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scientific name	Xyloctonus mauritianus Menier, 1974
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Xyloctonus mauritianus Menier, 1974: 662.

Type material.

Holotype, male: Mauritius, Corps de garde [-20.26, 57.45], 20. V. 1934, J. Vinson [MNHN].

Diagnosis.

Length 2.1-2.3 mm, 1.9 × as long as wide, colour brown, elytra maculated; antennal club with one clearly visible and one faint procurved suture; anterior margin of pronotum with two raised teeth; scutellar shield impressed in middle, with two bulbs at anterior corners; elytral interstriae 9 curves before apex and continues to elytral suture; elytral suture straight.

Distribution.

Mauritius.