Euwallacea fornicatus ( Eichhoff, 1868a )

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 : 68

169. Euwallacea fornicatus ( Eichhoff, 1868a) ( Fig. 36 )

Xyleborus fornicatus Eichhoff, 1868a

= Xyleborus whitfordiodendrus Schedl, 1942c

= Xyleborus tapatapaoensis Schedl, 1951c

Hosts: Polyphagous

DNA data from South African species: Paap et al. (2018) — COI: MG642816

Distribution in South Africa: Present in all provinces excluding Limpopo ( Van Rooyen et al. 2021)

Specimens examined: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, from Platanus x hispanica (= P. acerifolia ), November 2018, Leg. W.J. Nel [FABI].

Figures

FIGURE 36. Lateral and dorsal views of Euwallacea fornicatus (top) female and (bottom) male, from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, specimen ID = PSHB 58. Scale = 1mm.