Dryocoetes indicus Stebbing, 1914

Buhroo, Abdul Ahad, 2024, A taxonomic monograph of subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Western Himalaya, Zootaxa 5533 (1), pp. 1-82 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5533.1.1
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE8F5D-FF88-2D33-2DE9-FB7C91E14CFF
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scientific name	Dryocoetes indicus Stebbing, 1914
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18. Dryocoetes indicus Stebbing, 1914 View in CoL

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This species is diagnosed by the following morphological characters: ♂ frons rugose-punctate with dense minute punctures and sparse hairs, not forming tufts; epistomal margin with a brush of yellowish hairs; eyes emarginate anteriorly; funicle five-segmented and club obliquely truncate with two recurved sutures on anterior face, and one suture near apex on posterior face; pronotum almost as long as wide, disc convex, sides uniformly curved from base to apex; surface rugose with minute asperities, pubescence long and rather scattered, more prominent antero-laterally; scutellum large, heart-shaped, smooth, shining, dark brown; elytra 1.51× as long as pronotum and 1.42× as long as wide, broader apically than pronotum, apex rather sharply declivous, rounded; disc shining and strongly punctate, strial punctures placed in rows, large, shallow, each with a microhair; interstriae much wider than striae, set with a row of minute punctures; declivity shining, the sutural striae most strongly impressed in upper part, the punctures smaller, becoming very fine and scattered apically; vestiture of long, spiny interstrial hair-like setae, more longer laterally and on declivity; minute but evident tubercles on declivity; body dark brown; body length: 4.0– 4.36 mm, 2.46× as long as wide.

Females have a bright yellow tuft of dense hair-like setae on frons, much longer towards the margins; body length: 3.0–4.0 mm.

Material examined: New records: India: 5 ♂ ′s, 3 ♀ ′s. Kashmir , Baramulla , Check post Gulmarg (34° 03.797′ N, 074° 24.948′ E, 7552 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 25.05.2017 ( KUIC) GoogleMaps . Kashmir , Bandipora, Chorwan Gurez (34° 39.242′ N, 074° 53.581′ E, 8275 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 17.08.2018 ( KUIC) GoogleMaps . Kashmir , Baramulla, Baba Reshi (34° 03.92′ N, 074° 24.54′ E, 7600 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 10.07.2019 ( KUIC) GoogleMaps . Kashmir , Kupwara, Tangdhar (34° 23.527′ N, 073° 51.894′ E, 6525 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 10.07.2017 ( KUIC) GoogleMaps .