Pityophthorus cedri Wood, 1989

Buhroo, Abdul Ahad, 2024, A taxonomic monograph of subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Western Himalaya, Zootaxa 5533 (1), pp. 1-82 : 8-9

1. Pityophthorus cedri Wood, 1989

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This species is diagnosed by the following morphological characters: ♀ frons convex, shining, coarsely and closely punctured, subglabrous, with conspicuous, acute median carina; epistomal margin fringed with long, pale erect hairs, short sparse setae on frontal surface; the anterior margin of compound eye emarginate; pronotum as long as wide, widest slightly above base, narrowing anteriorly and sinuate before apex; anterior margin broadly rounded with six serrations; anterior half with a number of asperities arranged in concentric rows; pronotal disc shiny, closely and deeply punctured with a median impunctate area; pronotal surface with short, recumbent, blunt setae prominent laterally; scutellum shiny black, wider and broadly rounded; elytra slightly narrower at base than pronotum, wider apically, 1.51× as long as pronotum; sides straight on basal three-fourth, then constricted towards broadly rounded apex; the basal area with transverse rugosities, rest glabrous, punctate; strial punctures deeply round, 1 st striae distinctly impressed than others; punctures somewhat irregular on discal striae; interstriae glabrous, impunctate, nearly twice as wide as striae; elytral declivity distinctly shallowly sulcate from elevated sutural interstriae to interstriae 3; interstriae impunctate, 1–4 armed by small granules with filamentous setae over each granule; strial punctures minute; vestiture of fine, sparse setae, more prominent on sides and declivity, setae on interstriae 3 rather long; body length: 1.61–1.64 mm, 2.51× as long as wide.

Males are similar to females except serrations on anterior margin of pronotum and granules on elytral declivity distinctly larger; body length: 1.70–1.74 mm, 2.58× as long as wide.

Remarks: This species differs from other Indian species of this genus by the moderately impressed elytral declivity, a conspicuous median carina present on frons of both sexes, and the more nearly concentric pronotal asperities ( Wood 1989).

Material examined: New record: India: 2 ♀ ′s, 2 ♂ ′s. Jammu , Kishtwar, Kijaye Padder (33° 16.144′ N, 076° 07.680 E, 6145 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 09.09.2017 ( KUIC) .

Distribution: India: Jammu (new record), Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh

Hosts: Cedrus deodara , Pinus gerardiana ( Pinaceae )

Figures

FIGURE 3. Pityophthorus cedri. Female: dorsal view A; lateral view B; male: dorsolateral view C.