Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff, 1868

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 : 36-37

Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff, 1868 Fig. 15

Xyleborus affinis parvus Eichhoff, 1878. Synonymy Schedl 1959.

Xyleborus affinis mascarensis Eichhoff, 1878. Synonymy Wood 1960.

Xyleborus affinis fuscobrunneus Eichhoff, 1878. Synonymy Schedl 1959.

Xyleborus sacchari Hopkins, 1915. Synonymy Schedl 1959.

Xyleborus subaffinis Eggers, 1933. Synonymy Schedl 1959.

Xyleborus societatis Beeson, 1935. Synonymy Beaver 1991.

Xyleborus proximus Eggers, 1943. Synonymy Schedl 1962.

Type material.

Syntypes female; "America bor.", Cuba; ZMUH, lost; 1 in NMNH.

Distribution.

Africa (introduced); Asia (introduced); Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; Europe (introduced), North America: Antilles, Canada: Quebec, Mexico, United States: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia; Oceania (introduced); South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Notes.

This widely distributed species can cause economic damage in moist lowland areas of the Neotropics. This species is distinguished by the broadly sloping shagreened declivity and the small denticles in interstriae 1 and 3.