Coptoborus puertoricensis (Bright & Torres, 2006) Smith & Cognato, 2021

Smith, Sarah M. & Cognato, Anthony I., 2021, A revision of the Neotropical genus Coptoborus Hopkins (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), ZooKeys 1044, pp. 609-720 : 609

Coptoborus puertoricensis (Bright & Torres, 2006) comb. nov. Figure 13J-L, P

Theoborus puertoricensis Bright & Torres, 2006: 414.

Coptoborus puertoricensis Bright, 2005 [sic]: Wood 2007: 398.

Theoborus puertoricensis Bright & Torres: Bright 2019: 275.

Type material.

Holotype (CNCI), not examined.

New records.

None.

Diagnosis.

2.2-2.4 mm, 2.6-2.7 × as long as wide ( Bright and Torres 2006). This species is distinguished by the elytral apex attenuate and weakly emarginate, declivital interstriae 2 convex, declivital interstriae 1-3 denticulate, denticles on interstriae 2 minute, distinctly smaller than those of interstriae 1 or 3, posterolateral margin of declivity with interstriae 3 and 9 joining, forming a carina and continuing submarginally to apex and declivity shagreened and dull.

Similar species.

C. solitariformis .

Distribution.

Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.

Biology.

This species has been extensively collected via trapping and has been recorded from petioles of Cecropia schreberiana ( Urticaceae ) ( Bright 2019).

Remarks.

The treatment of this species was based on the examination of a specimen authoratively identified by Bright from San Germán, Puerto Rico (MSUC) (see Bright 2019).

Figures

Figure 13. Dorsal, lateral, frontal and declivital view of Coptoborus pilisoror holotype, 1.8 mm (A-C, M), C. pristis, 1.6 - 2.1 mm (D-F, N), C. pseudotenuis, 1.9 - 2.1 mm (G-I, O), C. puertoricensis, 2.2 - 2.4 mm (J-L, P). All photographs by SMS.