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Microperus borneensis 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
Microperus borneensis (Browne, 1986) comb. nov.
Xyleborus borneensis Browne, 1986a: 92, nec Eggers 1927.
Coptodryas borneensis (Browne): Beaver 1995: 202.
Remarks. Browne (1986a) stated that the holotype and one paratype were deposited in NHMUK, however these specimens were not located. One female paratype (NUFM) was examined. The species has the characteristics of Microperus given above for M. abbreviatus and it is here transferred to that genus.
Distribution. Indonesia (Sarawak). (Imported to Japan).
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 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7147098
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Microperus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith & Beaver & Sittichaya
- Species
- borneensis
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microperus borneensis (Browne, 1986) sec. Smith, Beaver & Sittichaya, 2022
References
- Browne, F. G. (1986 a) Bark beetles and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae and Platypodidae) intercepted at Japanese ports, with descriptions of new species, XIII. Kontyu, 54, 89 - 99.
- Beaver, R. A. (1995) New synonymy and taxonomic changes in Oriental and Australasian Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 97 B, 197 - 204.