Xylosandrus jaintianus (Schedl, 1967) Fig. 95G, H, L

Xyleborus jaintianus Schedl, 1967: 161.

Xylosandrus jaintianus (Schedl): Wood and Bright 1992: 796.

Type material.

Holotype (NHMW).

Diagnosis.

3.0 mm long (mean = 2.89 mm; n = 1); 2.0 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by its large size; elytral disc flat, longer than declivity; declivital face steep, abruptly separated from disc; elytra obliquely truncate; posterolateral margins of elytra carinate to interstriae 7; declivital face with four apparent granulate striae (striae 5 short, converging with striae 4 forming a loop); declivital face flattened, depressed below declivital margins; declivital striae and interstriae setose, setae recumbent, hair-like, equal to the width of an interstria; interstriae granulate, granules multiseriate, confused; strial granules at least 2 × larger than those of interstriae; pronotum longer than wide, from dorsal view conical frontally (type 6) and lateral view taller (type 2), summit at basal 1/4, basal 1/4 shagreened, dull, densely punctate; and broad, dense mycangial tuft on the pronotal base.

Similar species.

Xylosandrus brevis, X. subsimiliformis, X. subsimilis .

Distribution.

India (Meghalaya), Myanmar, Nepal.

Host plants.

Unknown.