Phloeosinus armatus N Reitter, 1887

Nel, Wilma J., Duong, Tuan A., Fell, Shawn, Herron, Darryl A., Paap, Trudy, Wingfield, Michael J., Beer, Wilhelm De, Hulcr, Jiri & Johnson, Andrew J., 2025, A checklist of South African bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae, Platypodinae), Zootaxa 5648 (1), pp. 1-101 : 51-52

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5648.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A53B655-D261-4DFA-8AA7-6CA6E4DEF685

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A087E4-7406-C909-FF37-81D9C766FCEA

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scientific name

Phloeosinus armatus N Reitter, 1887
status

 

118. Phloeosinus armatus N Reitter, 1887 View in CoL ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 )

= Phloeosinus andresi Eggers, 1927b View in CoL

Hosts: Cupressaceae

Distribution in South Africa: Gauteng

New record: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, from Cupressus sp. , 14 January 2019, Leg. D.A. Herron, Det. A.J. Johnson & W.J. Nel [ FABI] .

Notes: Phloeosinus armatus is considered an eastern Mediterranean bark beetle that has been disseminated to various countries including Israel, Italy, and the USA. In some of these regions it is considered a pest on various species of Cupressus , as well as Juniperus and Thuja spp. ( Haack 2006; Mendel 1984; Pennacchio et al. 2013). Although cypress is not grown commercially in South Africa, it is a common ornamental species.

POLYGRAPHINI Chapuis, 1869

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Phloeosinus

Loc

Phloeosinus armatus N Reitter, 1887

Nel, Wilma J., Duong, Tuan A., Fell, Shawn, Herron, Darryl A., Paap, Trudy, Wingfield, Michael J., Beer, Wilhelm De, Hulcr, Jiri & Johnson, Andrew J. 2025
2025
Loc

Phloeosinus andresi

Eggers 1927
1927
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