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Terminalinus major 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

Terminalinus major (Stebbing, 1909) comb. res.

Phloeosinus major Stebbing, 1909: 540.

Xyleborus major (Stebbing): Stebbing 1914: 590.

Notoxyleborus major (Stebbing): Maiti & Saha 1986: 100.

Terminalinus major (Stebbing): Wood 1986: 267.

Xyleborus major (Stebbing): Wood & Bright 1992: 749.

Fortiborus major (Stebbing): Hulcr & Cognato 2010: 18.

Xyleborus siclus Schedl, 1936: 26. Hulcr & Cognato 2010: 18.

Remarks. Images of the holotype of Phloeosinus major (IFRI) were examined. The species has the characteristics of Terminalinus given above in the generic diagnosis and is here transferred to that genus.

Distribution. ‘Borneo’, India (Andaman Is, Assam, West Bengal), Indonesia (Mentawei Is., Sumatra), New Guinea, Thailand.

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 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7147098

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References

  • Stebbing, E. P. (1909) On some undescribed Scolytidae of economic importance from the Indian Region, II. Indian Forest Memoirs, 1, 13 - 32.
  • Stebbing, E. P. (1914) Indian forest insects of economic importance. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 648 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9203
  • Maiti, P. K. & Saha, N. (1986) Contributions to the knowledge of the bark and timber beetles (Scolytidae: Coleoptera) of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publications, Occasional Papers, 86, 1 - 182.
  • Wood, S. L. (1986) New synonymy and new species of American bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Part XI. The Great Basin Naturalist, 46, 265 - 273.
  • 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.
  • Hulcr, J. & Cognato, A. I. (2010) New genera of Palaeotropical Xyleborini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) based on congruence between morphological and molecular characters. Zootaxa, 2717 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2717.1.1