New species and new records of Scolytoplatypus Schaufuss (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from China, and resurrection of Scolytoplatypussinensis (Tsai & Huang, 1965) as a distinct species

Song Liao; Shengchang Lai; Roger A Beaver; Heiko Gebhardt; Jianguo Wang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1082.77637

New species and new records of Scolytoplatypus Schaufuss (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from China, and resurrection of Scolytoplatypussinensis (Tsai & Huang, 1965) as a distinct species

Zookeys. 2022 Jan 18:1082:27-50. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1082.77637. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Song Liao¹, Shengchang Lai², Roger A Beaver³, Heiko Gebhardt⁴, Jianguo Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Invasion Biology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 340045, China Jiangxi Agricultural University Nanchang China.
² College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, China Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing China.
³ 161/2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Pranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand Unaffiliated Chiangmai Thailand.
⁴ Maienfeldstraße 23/1, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany Unaffiliated Tübingen Germany.

Abstract

This study describes two new species, Scolytoplatypuswugongshanensis Liao, Lai & Beaver, sp. nov. and S.skyliuae Liao, Lai & Beaver, sp. nov., reinstates S.sinensis (Tsai & Huang, 1965) from synonymy with S.mikado (Blandford, 1893), and records five species for the first time from China, S.brahma Blandford, 1898, S.curviciliosus Gebhardt, 2006, S.minimus Hagedorn, 1904, S.ruficauda Eggers, 1939, S.samsinghensis Maiti & Saha, 2009, and three from mainland China, S.blandfordi Gebhardt, 2006, S.calvus Beaver & Liu, 2007, S.pubescens Hagedorn, 1904. A key to the males of Scolytoplatypus species in China is given. Genetic data from four genes indicate a rather isolated position for both new species, although their genetic relationship to each other was close.

Keywords: Ambrosia beetles; Fujian; Jiangxi; Scolytoplatypodini; molecular phylogeny; taxonomy.

Song Liao, Shengchang Lai, Roger A. Beaver, Heiko Gebhardt, Jianguo Wang.