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Issue: Vol. 4200 No. 3: 30 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.7
Page range: 417–425
Abstract views: 107
PDF downloaded: 60

Two remarkable new species of Hypothenemus Westwood (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Southeastern USA

School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville FL. 32611.
Texas Natural History Collections, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. 78712.
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville FL. 32611, & Department of Entomology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 32611.
Coleoptera Cryphalini Bark beetles pygmy borers

Abstract

Two new Hypothenemus species found in southern and southeastern USA are described: Hypothenemus piaparolinae sp. n. and Hypothenemus subterrestris sp. n. The distribution and habits suggest these species are native and widely distributed, but elusive, and not recently arrived exotics. Both appear to have unusual biology: H. subterrestris appears to live in material on or in the ground, and H. piaparolinae has only been collected from the xylem of extensively rotten, fungus-filled twigs.

 

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