Dryocoetini Lindemann, 1877

Buhroo, Abdul Ahad, 2024, A taxonomic monograph of subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Western Himalaya, Zootaxa 5533 (1), pp. 1-82 : 20-21

Tribe Dryocoetini Lindemann, 1877

Genus Coccotrypes Eichhoff, 1878a

Coccotrypes species are diagnosed by the following morphological characters: body length: 1.2–2.5 mm; frons convergently aciculate with sparse hair-like vestiture; eyes anteriorly emarginate; funicle five-segmented; club obliquely truncate with none to two recurved sutures on its posterior face; pronotum usually longer than wide with or without asperities; scutellum small; declivity convex and unarmed; vestiture consists of abundant and erect hair-like setae; procoxae contiguous; protibiae armed by four-socketed teeth; sexes hardly distinguishable; host: deciduous trees.

Key to the Western Himalayan species of Coccotrypes Eichhoff, 1878a

1 Striae with small, shallow punctures, separated within the row by about half of the diameter of a puncture from each another; interstriae 2.5× wider than striae, marked by much smaller punctures, each with an erect bristle with knobbed apex........................................................................................... C. cinnamomi (Eggers)

- Strial punctures large, shallow, separated within the row by about the diameter of a puncture from each other; interstriae about 1.5× as wide as striae, marked by shallow, small punctures replaced by minute granules towards apices..................................................................................................... C. papuanus (Eggers)