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Ambrosiophilus compressus Smith & Beaver & Sittichaya 2022, comb. nov.

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. smith 462 @ msu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5173 - 3736
  • 2. 161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand.
  • 3. Agricultural Innovation and Management Division, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, 90110, Thailand. wanakorn 62 @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6200 - 1285 & Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 243 Natural Science Bldg., East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. cognato @ msu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6436 - 2447

Description

Ambrosiophilus compressus (Lea, 1894) comb. nov.

Xylopertha compressa Lea, 1894: 321.

Xyleborus compressus (Lea): Lea 1910: 138.

Ambrosiodmus compressus (Lea): Wood & Bright 1992: 672.

Remarks. The location of Lea’s syntypes is not known (Wood & Bright 1992), but specimens from Australia determined by Schedl (NHMW), and by Browne and others (NHMUK), have been examined by RAB. The species has the characteristics of Ambrosiophilus given above for A. bispinosulus and is here transferred to that genus.

Distribution. Australia, New Zealand.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Sarah M., Beaver, Roger A. & Sittichaya, Wisut, 2022, One hundred eighteen taxonomic changes among Xyleborine ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 151-175 in Zootaxa 5194 (2) on page 154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7147098

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References

  • Lea, A. M. (1894) Descriptions of new species of Bostrychidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 8, 317 - 323.
  • Lea, A. M. (1910) On Australian and Tasmanian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, New Series, 22, 113 - 152, pl. 30.
  • Wood, S. L. & Bright, D. E. (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2: Taxonomic index. The Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, 13, 1 - 1553.