Amasa parviseta (Knizek & Smith, 2024)

Gallego, Diego, Dios, Miguel Ángel Gómez De, Riba-Flinch, Josep Maria, García-Reina, Andrés, Galián, José, Mas, Hugo, Lencina, José Luis, Zafra, María, Henares, Ignacio, Rodríguez, Francisco, Alcázar, María Dolóres, Knížek, Miloš & Gómez, Demian F., 2025, Euwallacea similis (Ferrari), a new ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) for the Iberian Peninsula, and new records on Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff), Xyleborus bispinatus Eichhoff and Amasa parviseta Knížek & Smith, Zootaxa 5673 (1), pp. 63-78 : 71

Amasa parviseta

A single specimen of A. parviseta ( Figure 2 ) has been captured ( Table 1), in one trap of the network for E. fornicatus in Motril ( Granada province) in September 2024 ( Table 1, Figure 1 ). A possible record from Gemunde (Porto, Portugal) is also included, based on a photo by Carlos Silva shared on a private social media group in September 2024.

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FIGURE 1. Records of populations of the alien Xyleborini species. Blue diamonds: present work. Red diamond: possible record. Green triangles: previous records of Amasa parviseta (Knížek & Smith 2024), Euwallacea similis (Toccafondi et al. 2025) and Xyleborus bispinatus (Gallego et al. 2022). Spanish province codes: Gr: Granada; Al: Almería; Mu: Murcia; Ac: Alicante; Va: Valencia; Ca: Castellón; Ma: Mallorca.

FIGURE 2. Habitus of the species. A–B: Amasa parviseta female; C–D: Euwallacea fornicatus female; E–F: E. fornicatus male; G–H: Euwallacea similis female, I–J: Xyleborus bispinatus female; K–L: Xyleborus bispinatus male.