Fraudatrix cuneiformis Cognato & Smith & Beaver 2020, comb. n.
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Fraudatrix cuneiformis (Schedl) comb. n.
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Xyleborus cuneiformis Schedl, 1958: 104.
Diagnosis: 1.90–2.15 mm long (mean = 2.02 mm; n = 5); 2.86–3.07 times as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the anterior margin of the pronotum rounded, declivital strial punctures indistinct, interstrial granules large, distinct, elytral apex narrowly attenuate and stouter form.
Material examined: Lectotype, female, MALAYSIA: Selangor, Kepong, 6.x.1949, F.G. Browne, ex Shorea macroptera (NHMW); Sabah, Sipitang, Mendolong, 11.v.1988, leg. S. Adebratt (RABC, 1). TAIWAN: Nantou Co., Sun Moon Lake, EtOH trap, 3.x.2013, C-S. Lin (RABC, 1); as previous except: Hui Son, EtOH [trap], 10.viii.2006, Liu, L-Y. (RABC, 1).
Distribution: Brunei, East & West Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan.
Host plants: Recorded only from two species of Shorea (Dipterocarpaceae) (Schedl 1958).
Remarks: The gallery system has branched tunnels with small brood chambers in the longitudinal plane (Browne 1961).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- RABC
- Event date
- 1949-10-06
- Verbatim event date
- 1949-10-06/2013-10-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Cognato & Smith & Beaver
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Fraudatrix
- Species
- cuneiformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Fraudatrix cuneiformis (Schedl, 1958) sec. Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020
References
- Schedl, K. E. (1958) Bark and timber beetles from Malaya. Malayan Forester, 21, 99 - 105.
- Browne, F. G. (1961) The biology of Malayan Scolytidae and Platypodidae. Malayan Forest Records, 22, 1 - 255.