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Planiculus Hulcr & Cognato 2010

  • 1. Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Description

Planiculus Hulcr & Cognato, 2010

Planiculus Hulcr & Cognato, 2010: 21.

Type species: Xyleborus bicolor Blandford, 1894; original designation.

Diagnosis. [modified from Smith et al. (2020)]

Minute to small (1.59–2.8 mm), elongate (2.57–3.6× as long as wide). Declivity flat, slightly broadened laterally; lateral profile of declivity gradually descending; pronotum from dorsal view long, rounded anteriad (type 9), from lateral view elongated with low summit and elongate disc (type 8); antennal club approximately circular, obliquely truncate, type 2, segment 1 corneous, large, occupying at least basal 1/2 of club, segment 2 visible on posterior face; and protibiae distinctly triangular. The procoxae are contiguous, scutellum visible, flat, flush with elytra, the tuft on pronotal base associated with mesonotal mycangium is absent.

Notes

Published as part of Sittichaya, Wisut & Cognato, Anthony I., 2024, Planiculus angulatus, a new species of xyleborine ambrosia beetle from Thailand (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), pp. 482-488 in Zootaxa 5471 (4) on page 483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/12190417

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hulcr & Cognato
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Planiculus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Planiculus Hulcr, 2010 sec. Sittichaya & Cognato, 2024

References

  • Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2010) New genera of Palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) based on congruence between morphological and molecular characters. Zootaxa, 2717 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2717.1.1
  • Blandford, W. F. H. (1894) The Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of Japan. Part III. Scolytidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1894, 53 - 141.
  • Smith, S. M., Beaver, R. A. & Cognato, A. I. (2020) A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China. ZooKeys, 983, 1 - 442. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 983.52630