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Ambrosiophilus immitatrix Smith & Beaver & Sittichaya 2022

  • 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 immitatrix (Schedl, 1975) stat. res., comb. nov.

Xyleborus immitatrix Schedl 1975: 367.

Xyleborus imitatrix Schedl unjustified emendation (Schedl 1980: 124).

Remarks. Images of the holotype (NHMW) were examined. The species was previously considered a synonym of Xyleborus judenkoi Schedl, 1959 (Hulcr & Cognato 2013: 152). An image of an X. judenkoi paratype (NHMW) and a paratype (NHMUK) were examined. However, the species is distinctly different from X. judenkoi with A. immitatrix bearing tubercles along declivital interstriae 1 which are absent in X. judenkoi. The species has the characteristics of Ambrosiophilus given above for A. bispinosulus and is here transferred to that genus.

Schedl (1980) proposed an emendation of X. immitatrix to X. imitatrix but this act was unjustified in accordance with article 33.2.3 (ICZN 1999) because Schedl only used the spelling immitatrix in the publication of the original description (Schedl 1975).

Distribution. Papua New Guinea.

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

  • Schedl, K. E. (1975) New Scolytidae and Platypodidae from Papua and New Guinea, IV. 317. Contribution to the morphology and taxonomy of the Scolytoidea. Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museums, Wien, 79, 337 - 399.
  • Schedl, K. E. (1980) Zur Synonymie der Borkenkafer XXVIII. 339. Beitrag zur Morphologie und Systematik der Scolytoidea. Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreichischer Entomologen, 31 (1979), 117 - 124.
  • Schedl, K. E. (1959) A checklist of the Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) of Ceylon with descriptions of new species and biological notes. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 111, 469 - 534. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1959. tb 02874. x
  • 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.
  • ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4 th Edition. The International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.