Ambrosiodmus minor (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 : 11

Ambrosiodmus minor (Stebbing)

Phloeosinus minor Stebbing, 1907: 37 .

Dryocoetes minor (Stebbing) : Stebbing 1914: 549.

Xyleborus minor (Stebbing) : Beeson 1930: 70.

Ambrosiodmus minor (Stebbing) : Wood & Bright 1992: 676.

Recorded from Bhutan by Schedl (1975).

Distribution. South China, India and Nepal, through Southeast Asia to East Malaysia, Taiwan.

Biology. A polyphagous species like the majority of Xyleborini . Beeson (1930) describes the biology, gallery system and phenology. He notes that the species tends to attack timber which has been felled for several weeks rather than freshly felled.