Xyleborus Eichhoff

Gomez, Demian F., Johnson, Andrew J. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2020, Potential pest bark and ambrosia beetles from Cuba not present in the continental United States, Florida Entomologist 103 (1), pp. 96-96 : 96-

Xyleborus Eichhoff ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae )

Species within Xyleborus can be distinguished by the truncate antennal club (with a corneus first segment), and inflated posterocoxal process. Most species are highly polyphagous colonizing broken or damaged hosts ( Wood 2007). The redbay ambrosia beetles, Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ), is one of the most devastating species of this genus, having introduced a pathogenic ambrosia fungus that killed more than 300 million red bays in the USA ( Hughes et al. 2017).