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Issue: Vol. 4869 No. 3: 3 Nov. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.3.11
Page range: 444–450
Abstract views: 175
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Description of new species of Ambrosiodmus Hopkins and Dryocoetoides Hopkins (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) from Mexico

Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco, Estado de México 56230, México.
University of Texas Insect Collection, 3001 Lake Austin Blvd. Austin, Texas 78703, U.S.A.
Instituto de Fitosanidad, Colegio de Postgraduados, Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco, Estado de México 56230, México.
Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas, km 0.5 s/n Carretera Villahermosa-Cárdenas, Villahermosa, Tabasco, 86150, México.
Coleoptera Southeastern Mexico Tabasco Chiapas Veracruz ambrosia beetles

Abstract

Two new species of ambrosia beetles in the Xyleborini from southeastern Mexico are described and illustrated: Ambrosiodmus spinosus n. sp. and Dryocoeetoides tuberculatus n. sp.

 

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