Tuesday, June 25, 2024

[Entomology • 2024] Planiculus angulatus • A New Species of xyleborine ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) from Thailand


  Planiculus angulatus  Sittichaya & Cognato, 2024
P. shiva (Maiti & Saha 1986)

 
Abstract
A new species, Planiculus angulatus sp. nov., is described and P. shiva is reported from Thailand for the first time. A list of Planiculus species found in Thailand with distributions, habitat types and a key to species are also provided.

Coleoptera, diversity, new species, Oriental region, Thai fauna




Wisut Sittichaya and Anthony I. Cognato. 2024. Planiculus angulatus, A New Species of xyleborine ambrosia beetle from Thailand (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini).  Zootaxa. 5471(4); 482-488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.7