Phloeotribus atlanticus Schedl, 1951

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Phloeotribus atlanticus Schedl ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) ( Fig. 4 )

Diagnosis: Distinguished by narrow antennal club segments and small rounded granules in the interstriae. Adults are 1.9 to 2.3 mm. Distinguished from the USA species of Phloeotribus by the stout body proportions of less than 2.0 times as long as wide (all other southeastern USA species are greater than 2.1 times as long as wide) with numerous long setae on the male’s antennal scape.

Distribution: Caribbean: Cuba (Matanzas Province), Dominican Republic, Jamaica.

Hosts: Recorded from 14 species in the families Araliaceae , Euphor- biaceae, Meliaceae , Moraceae , and Ulmaceae .

Notes: Bright (2019) resurrected this species previously synony- mized with the similar Phloeotribus setulosus Eichhoff ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) based on characters in the epistoma of males and the frons in females. The species in this genus in the USA are restricted each to a different family of host trees, whereas P. setulosus appears to be polyphagous, and may be capable of developing in several orna- mental or specialty fruit crops in southern Florida.

Figures

Fig. 4. Dorsal and lateral view of female Phloeotribus atlanticus. Scale bar: 1 mm.Permission to publish from the National Museum of Natural History,Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.