Scolytodes Ferrari (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) from Ecuador: 40 new species, and a molecular phylogenetic guide to infer species differences
Author
Jordal, Bjarte H.
Author
Smith, Sarah M.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-07-14
4813
1
1
67
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4813.1.1
1175-5326
3944139
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Scolytodes chapuisi
Wood, 1977
(
Figs 29, 32, 35
)
Ctenophorus laevigatus
Chapuis, 1869
, preoccupied by
S. laevigatus
Ferrari, 1867
.
Hexacolus levis
Blackman 1943
, preoccupied by
Prionosceles laevis
Eggers, 1928
.
Material examined.
Syntype
, male:
Colombie
[
NHMW
]. Other material as previously reported (
Jordal 1998
b
, 2013,
2018
).
This species is very similar to several of the new species described in this paper and a brief note with illustrations is therefore needed to avoid confusion.
Scolytodes chapuisi
is characterised by uniseriate interstriae, by shallow, fine and widely spaced pronotal punctures, and a shiny median third in the female frons with a long tuft of setae. The female frons is similar in
S. inordinatus
, but the latter species has strongly confused interstrial punctures, particularly on the posterior half of elytra, and is distinctly different at multiple genetic markers.
S. chapuisi
and
S. cancellatus
have both more regular rows of punctures in each interstriae, but
S. chapuisi
differs by the much smaller elytral and pronotal punctures.