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Beaverium dihingensis

Description

49. Beaverium dihingensis (Eggers) * n. comb.

Xyleborus rufobrunneus var. dihingensis Eggers, 1930: 189.

Ambrosiodmus dihingensis (Eggers): Wood & Bright, 1992: 673.

Thai distribution: N-E: Chaiyaphum. New to Thailand.

New record: Chaiyaphum, Phu Khieo Wildl. Res., 15.vii.2005 (J. Hulcr et al.) (1).

Other distribution: India (Assam, W. Bengal). The species also occurs in China (Yunnan) (R. A. Beaver, unpublished record). (2)

Taxonomy: The species was originally described as a variety of Xyleborus rufobrunneus Eggers by Eggers (1930), but referred to as a good species by Beeson (1961). Wood and Bright (1992: 673) list it as a good species in the genus Ambrosiodmus Hopkins, but confusingly also list it (p.769) as a synonym of Xyleborus rufobrunneus! We consider it a good species, but note that it has the morphological characters of the genus Beaverium Hulcr & Cognato (2009). Accordingly, we transfer it to that genus.

Biology: Recorded from Artocarpus (Moraceae) and Pterocarpus (Leguminosae) (Beeson 1961).

Illustrations: P (Hulcr 2012 as Ambrosiodmus dihingensis); D (Maiti & Saha 2004 as Ambrosiodmus dihingensis).

Notes

Published as part of Beaver, R. A., Sittichaya, W. & Liu, L-Y., 2014, A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 3875 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3875.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5130589

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
R
Scientific name authorship
Eggers
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Beaverium
Species
dihingensis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Eggers, H. (1930) Neue Xyleborus - Arten (Col., Scolytidae) aus Indien. Indian Forest Records, Entomology Series, 14, 177 - 208.
  • Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2: Taxonomic index. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, 13, 1 - 1553.
  • Beeson, C. F. C. (1961) The ecology and control of the forest insects of India and the neighbouring countries. Government of India, New Delhi, 1007 pp. + 36 pls.
  • Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2009) Three new genera of oriental Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Zootaxa, 2204, 19 - 36.
  • Hulcr, J. (2012) Xyleborini ambrosia beetles. Available from: http: // Xyleborini. myspecies. info / gallery (accessed 15 June 2014)
  • 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.