Scolytodes ingae ( Blackman 1943 ) Jordal, 2018

Jordal, Bjarte H., 2018, Hidden gems in museum cabinets: new species and new distributional records of Scolytodes (Coleoptera: Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4504 (1), pp. 76-104 : 100

Scolytodes ingae ( Blackman 1943) , stat. nov.

Prinosceles ingae Blackman, 1943 , resurrected from synonymy in S. maurus Blandford.

Scolytodes trigonus Jordal, 2013 . syn. nov.

The holotype of Prinosceles ingae , deposited in USNM (photo: http://www.barkbeetles.info), was compared to the recently described S. trigonus and found to be identical. Scolytodes ingae was placed in synonymy with S. maurus by Wood (2007). However, S. maurus has a largely smooth pronotum, and a smooth male frons. The male holotypes of S. ingae and S. trigonus have a triangular field in the frons that becomes rough and irregularly elevated near the epistoma. They also have a tiny puncture associated with each main strial puncture on the elytra, and the interstrial granules are much larger and consistent compared to S. maurus . Another synonym of S. maurus in South America, S. medius (Eggers) , looks like S. maurus , but cannot be evaluated properly due to the frons is glued in both the type (USNM) and paratypes (NHMW).