Xyleborus xylographus ( Say, 1826 )

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 : 84

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/03A087E4-7467-C969-FF37-8399C7DBF9CF

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scientific name

Xyleborus xylographus ( Say, 1826 )
status

 

12. Xyleborus xylographus ( Say, 1826) View in CoL

Bostrichus xylographus Say, 1826 View in CoL

= Xyleborus inermis Eichhoff, 1868 View in CoL

= Xyleborus canadensis Swaine, 1917 View in CoL

Hosts: Burseraceae , Sapindaceae

Specimens examined: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 09 April 1956, Leg. J.H. Grobler, Ac. X. 146 [ SANC]. Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal], South Africa, 1956, K.E. Schedl [ FABI] .

Notes: This species was cited as collected in South Africa by Schedl (1957a). However, in the original account, Xyleborinus saxesenii is shown as a junior synonym of X. xylographus . There has been a long history of these species being confused, originally due to a synonymy introduced by Eichhoff (1896) based on incorrectly identified specimens ( Bright 1968). Schedl later recognized these species as distinct ( Schedl1962a) and Bright (1968) designated a neotype which resolved this confusion. The material examined in SANC and FABI suggests that previous reports were of X. saxesenii and not X. xylographus . There appears to be no credible reports, that we are aware of, of X. xylographus in South Africa.

SANC

Agricultural Research Council-Plant Protection Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Xyleborus

Loc

Xyleborus xylographus ( Say, 1826 )

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

Xyleborus canadensis

Swaine 1917
1917
Loc

Xyleborus inermis

Eichhoff 1868
1868
Loc

Bostrichus xylographus

Say 1826
1826
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