Taphrorychus hewetti (Stebbing)

Beaver, Roger A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2022, The bark and ambrosia beetles of Bhutan (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae): a synopsis with three new species of Scolytinae, Zootaxa 5174 (1), pp. 1-24 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5174.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6972978
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/217A020B-6E5C-3F05-FF6C-4FDBFEFACB1E
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scientific name	Taphrorychus hewetti (Stebbing)
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Taphrorychus hewetti (Stebbing) View in CoL

Dryocoetes hewetti Stebbing, 1908: 11 View in CoL .

Taphrorychus hewetti (Stebbing) View in CoL : Wood & Bright 1992: 559.

Recorded from Bhutan by Schedl (1975 as Dryocoetes hewetti View in CoL ).

New record. Bhutan, Nobding , 40 km Ost Wangdi Ph., 2800 m, 1972 (1) ( NHMW) .

Distribution. Bhutan, India ( Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal.

Biology. Stebbing (1914) gives some notes on the life history and the gallery system in the phloem. All host records are from Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) . The beetles attack weakened trees, especially those parasitised by mistletoe.