New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
New species of Pachycotes Sharp and Xylechinus Chapuis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae, Tomicini) from New Caledonian Araucaria spp. (Coniferales: Araucariaceae)
Roland Mecke
Zoologisches Institut
LS Entwicklungsphysiologie
Auf der Morgenstelle 28
72076 Tübingen
Germany
email: roland.mecke@t-online.de
Abstract Three new bark beetle species, Pachycotes grandis sp. n., P. engelsi sp. n., and Xylechinus araucariae sp. n. (Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Tomicini), are described and illustrated. Brief notes on their life histories are given. The beetles were collected from dead branches and logs of Araucaria laubenfelsii and A. muelleri trees in New Caledonia. In addition, a key for all nine known Pachycotes species (P. araucariae Schedl, P. australis Schedl, P. clavatus Schedl, P. grandis sp. n., P. engelsi sp. n., P. kuscheli Schedl, P. minor Wood, P. peregrinus (Chapuis), and P. villosus Schedl) is presented.
Keywords Pachycotes; Xylechinus; Araucaria; new species; key; New Caledonia
Z04007; Received 4 March 2004; accepted 2 June 2004; Online publication date 24 November 2004
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 31: 343–349
0301–4223/04/3104–0343 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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