Description of new Dryocoetes (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) species from Afghanistan and Northern India and redescription of Scolytoplatypus kunala Strohm

By

Mandelshtam, Michail
Petrov, Alexander

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2010

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

56

Pages

179-190

Subjects

Afghanistan , Curculionidae , Dryocoetes , new species , Northern India , Scolytinae , Scolytoplatypus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.56.525

 

Abstract

A new bark beetle species, Dryocoetes brownei from Northern India and Afghanistan, is described as a new to science and redescription of Scolytoplatypus kunala Strohmeyer, 1908, previously known only from the female holotype, is provided.