Xyleborus volvulus (Fabricius, 1775)

Gomez, Demian F., Rabaglia, Robert J., Fairbanks, Katherine E. O. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2018, North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 768, pp. 19-68 : 44

Xyleborus volvulus (Fabricius, 1775) Fig. 18

Bostrichus volvulus Fabricius, 1775.

Xyleborus torquatus Eichhoff, 1868. Synonymy Wood 1960.

Xyleborus alternans Eichhoff, 1869. Synonymy Eggers 1929.

Xyleborus badius Eichhoff, 1869. Synonymy Wood 1960.

Xyleborus interstitialis Eichhoff, 1878. Synonymy Wood 1982.

Xyleborus guanajuatensis Dugès, 1887. Synonymy Wood 1983.

Xyleborus hubbardi Hopkins, 1915. Synonymy Schedl 1952.

Xyleborus schwarzi Hopkins, 1915. Synonymy Bright 1968.

Xyleborus rileyi Hopkins, 1915. Synonymy Bright 1968.

Xyleborus grenadensis Hopkins, 1915. Synonymy Wood 1972.

Xyleborus continentalis Eggers, 1920. Synonymy Beaver 2011.

Xyleborus silvestris Beeson, 1929. Synonymy Wood 1989.

Xyleborus vagabundus Schedl, 1948. Synonymy Wood 1972.

Xyleborus granularis Schedl, 1950. Synonymy Wood 1989.

Type material.

Lectotype female; "America ligno Dom v. Rohr (presumably Cuba)"; UZMC.

Distribution.

Africa; Asia; Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; North America: Antilles, Mexico, United States: Florida, Hawaii; Oceania; South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Notes.

Distinguished by the slightly convex to flattened declivity bearing prominent tubercles of varying sizes.