Euwallacea wallacei (Blandford)

Beaver, R. A., Sittichaya, W. & Liu, L-Y., 2014, A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 3875 (1), pp. 1-82 : 50-51

99. Euwallacea wallacei (Blandford) *

Xyleborus wallacei Blandford, 1896a: 220 .

Euwallacea wallacei (Blandford) : Wood, 1989: 173.

Xyleborus barbatomorphus Schedl, 1951: 72 . n. syn.

Euwallacea barbatomorphus (Schedl) : Beaver & Liu, 2010: 26.

Thai distribution: N: Chiang Mai. New to Thailand.

New record: Chiang Mai, Doi Pui , 1400 m, 6–10.vi.2005 (W. Puranasakul) (1) .

Other distribution: From India through Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia to New Guinea and Solomon Is. (4)

Taxonomy: Beaver & Liu (2010) noted that E. barbatomorphus is probably a synonym of another species of Euwallacea . The holotype of E. wallacei (Natural History Museum, London) from New Guinea has been compared to specimens in the senior author’s collection from New Guinea, Sumatera and Taiwan, and some of these specimens to a syntype of E. barbatomorphus (Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien). There can be no doubt that E. barbatomorphus falls within the range of morphological variation of E. wallacei , and is here synonymised with that species.

Biology: Polyphagous ( Maiti & Saha 2004). The gallery system does not appear to have been described, but probably resembles that of E.interjectus (see above).

Illustrations: P (Hulcr 2013, Hulcr & Cognato 2013, PaDIL 2014); D ( Nunberg 1959 as Xyleborus wallacei, Maiti & Saha 2004 ).