Anisandrus paragogus

Taxonomic history

Anisandrus paragogus Smith, Beaver & Cognato 2020 (in Smith et al. 2020bSmith et al. 2020b:
Smith SM, Beaver RA, and Cognato AI. 2020b. A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China. ZooKeys 983: 1-442. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630): 104.

Diagnosis

2.8 mm long (n = 1); 2.55 times as long as wide. This species can be distinguished by the mesonotal mycangial tuftmycangial tuft:
tuft of setae that denotes the mycangia exterior opening
absent; declivitaldeclivital:
pertaining to the elytral declivity
interstriae uniseriate granulategranulate:
pertaining to a coarse, grainy surface texture
on basalbase:
point or edge closest to the body; opposite of apex
half; declivitaldeclivital:
pertaining to the elytral declivity
face shagreenedshagreened:
covered with a closely-set roughness, like shark skin
; and interstrial setaeseta:
small hair-like or scale-like structure
erecterect:
pertaining to setae that have their apices directed away from the body and appear straight
, 3 times the width of an interstriainterstria:
longitudinal spaces along the elytra between the striae, which is not as<br /> impressed and bear smaller punctures.
; and a row of serrationsserration:
row of asperities; a saw-like structure
on anterioranterior:
the front or forward; opposite of posterior
margin of pronotumpronotum:
the dorsal surface of the thorax
.

May be confused with

Anisandrus dispar, A. maiche, Xylosandrus dentipennis, X. eupatorii, X. germanus, and X. metagermanus

Distribution

China (Xizang)

Host plants

recorded from Machilus (Lauraceae) (Smith et al. 2020bSmith et al. 2020b:
Smith SM, Beaver RA, and Cognato AI. 2020b. A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China. ZooKeys 983: 1-442. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630)

DNA data

specimens not available for sequencing