New species and new records of Scolytoplatypus Schaufuss (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from China, and resurrection of Scolytoplatypus sinensis (Tsai & Huang, 1965) as a distinct species

By

Liao, Song
Lai, Shengchang
Beaver, Roger
Gebhardt, Heiko
Wang, Jianguo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1082

Pages

27--50

Subjects

ambrosia beetles , Fujian , Jiangxi , molecular phylogeny , Scolytoplatypodini , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1082.77637

 

Abstract

This study describes two new species, Scolytoplatypus wugongshanensis Liao, Lai & Beaver, sp. nov. and S. skyliuae Liao, Lai & Beaver, sp. nov., reinstates S. sinensis (Tsai & Huang, 1965) from synonymy with S. mikado (Blandford, 1893), and records five species for the first time from China, S. brahma Blandford, 1898, S. curviciliosus Gebhardt, 2006, S. minimus Hagedorn, 1904, S. ruficauda Eggers, 1939, S. samsinghensis Maiti & Saha, 2009, and three from mainland China, S. blandfordi Gebhardt, 2006, S. calvus Beaver & Liu, 2007, S. pubescens Hagedorn, 1904. A key to the males of Scolytoplatypus species in China is given. Genetic data from four genes indicate a rather isolated position for both new species, although their genetic relationship to each other was close.