Xyleborinus exiguus
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Description
140. Xyleborinus exiguus (Walker)
Bostrichus exiguus Walker, 1859: 260.
Xyleborinus exiguus (Walker): Maiti & Saha, 1986: 109.
Xyleborus perexiguus Schedl, 1971: 381. Synonymy: Hulcr & Cognato, 2013: 142.
Thai distribution: C: Chantaburi, Kanchanaburi, Phitsanulok; N: Chiang Mai (Beaver & Browne 1975 as Xyleborus exiguus), Phetchabun, Tak; N-E: Loei, Nakhon Ratchasima, Sakhon Nakhon; S: Chumphon (Sittichaya & Beaver 2009), Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Ranong (Murphy & Meepol 1990), Surat Thani.
New records: More than 1720 specimens collected in all regions of the country, the great majority (1689) in durian (Durio zibethinus) (Bombacaeae) orchards in southern Thailand using traps baited with ethyl alcohol (Sittichaya et al. 2012).
Other distribution: From India and Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia and Indonesia to New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific islands. Also present in West Africa, and introduced into Central America. (5)
Biology: Polyphagous (Browne 1961a). The gallery system resembles that of X.andrewesi (see above). Kalshoven (1959) gives details of brood sizes in various hosts in relation to the size of the brood chamber.
Illustrations: P (Hulcr 2013, Hulcr & Cognato 2013, PaDIL 2014); D (Maiti & Saha 2004).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Xyleborinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- exiguus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Maiti, P. K. & Saha, N. (1986) Contributions to the knowledge of the bark and timber beetles (Scolytidae: Coleoptera) of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publications, Occasional Papers, 86, 1 - 182.
- Schedl, K. E. (1971) Indomalayan bark and timber beetles. Oriental Insects, 5, 361 - 399. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1971.10434023
- Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2013) Xyleborini of New Guinea: A Taxonomic Monograph. Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, 176 pp.
- Beaver, R. A. & Browne, F. G. (1975) The Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand. Oriental Insects, 9, 283 - 311. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1975.10434499
- Sittichaya, W. & Beaver, R. A. (2009) Rubberwood-destroying beetles in the eastern and gulf areas of Thailand (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae, Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae). Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, 31, 381 - 387. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10310 - 010 - 0224 - 7
- Murphy, D. H. & Meepol, W. (1990) Timber beetles of the Ranong mangrove forests. Mangrove Ecosystems Occasional Paper, No. 7, 5 - 8.
- Sittichaya, W., Permkam, S. & Cognato, A. I. (2012) Species composition and flight pattern of Xyleborini ambrosia beetles (Col.: Curculinidae: Scolytinae) fom agricultural areas in southern Thailand. Environmental Entomology, 41, 776 - 784. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1603 / en 11271
- Browne, F. G. (1961 a) The biology of Malayan Scolytidae and Platypodidae. Malayan Forest Records, 22, 1 - 255.
- Kalshoven, L. G. E. (1959) Studies on the biology of Indonesian Scolytoidea 4. Data on the habits of Scolytidae. Second part. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 102, 135 - 173 + Plates 15 - 22.
- Maiti, P. K. & Saha, N. (2004) Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries. Scolytidae: Coleoptera (Bark and Ambrosia Beetles). Vol. 1. Part 1. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, 268 pp.