Planiculus bicolor (Blandford)

Hulcr, Jiri, 2010, Taxonomic changes in palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 56, pp. 105-119 : 107

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scientific name	Planiculus bicolor (Blandford)
status

Treatment

Xyleborus bicolor Blandford, 1894

Euwallacea bicolor (Blandford): Wood and Bright 1992

Planiculus bicolor (Blandford): Hulcr and Cognato 2010

Xyleborus artelaevis (Schedl, 1942a), syn. n.

Euwallacea artelaevis (Schedl): Beaver 1998, syn. n.

Xyleborus rameus Schedl, 1940

Xyleborus bicolor (Schedl): Kalshoven 1959

Specimens examined.

Xyleborus artelaevis : Malaysia, Perak, (holotype, NHMW); New Guinea, Gulf Province, Ivimka, (R.A. Beaver det., UCD); Indonesia, Sulawesi (R. A. Beaver det., BMNH). Planiculus bicolor : Nagasaki, Japan (syntype, BMNH); Fiji, Namosi ( Xyleborus rameus (syn. Planiculus bicolor ) Schedl det., BMNH).

Comments.

Holotype of Xyleborus artelaevis virtually identical to Planiculus bicolor (Blandford), except first segment of antennal club more convex. All other characters identical, including uniform granules in declivital interstriae 1, 2, and 3 (same size granules in interstriae 1-3 characteristic for Planiculus bicolor ). Xyleborus artelaevis holotype deteriorated, missing or damaged body parts including antenne.