Xenoxylebora perdiligens (Schedl, 1937)

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 : 71

174. Xenoxylebora perdiligens N ( Schedl, 1937b) ( Fig. 39 )

Xyleborus perdiligens Schedl, 1937b

Hosts: collected by sieving soil and sifting leaf litter under tree ferns.

Distribution in South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga

New records: Berlin F.S., E. Transvaal [now Mpumalanga], South Africa, 25°32'S, 30°44'E, 22 September 1986, Leg. Endrödy-Younga, Det. R . A. Beaver [ DMNH]. Westfalia Fruit Estate , Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa, 23°42.4915'S, 30°5.9606'E, November 2018, Leg. W.J. Nel, Det. A.J. Johnson [ FABI] .

Notes: Xenoxylebora perdiligens is a species of ambrosia beetle previously only known from Central Africa ( Wood & Bright 1992; Osborn et al. 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 39. Lateral and dorsal views of Xenoxylebora perdiligens, from Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa, specimen ID = WNB093. Scale = 1mm.