Cryptoxyleborus stenographus

Taxonomic history

Xyleborus stenographus Schedl, 1971b: 383.

Cryptoxyleborus stenographus (Schedl): Wood and Bright, 1992: 829.

Diagnosis

2.35−2.6 mm long (mean = 2.46 mm; n = 4); 3.0−3.33 times as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the elytralelytral:
pertaining to the elytra
apexapex:
point or edge furthest from the body; opposite of base
acuminateacuminate:
tapering to a long point
; two mycangial pits broad and narrow on basalbase:
point or edge closest to the body; opposite of apex
slope of elytra; declivitaldeclivital:
pertaining to the elytral declivity
interstriae denticulatedenticulate:
covered in denticles
; and antennalantennal:
pertaining to the antennae
funicle 4-segmented.

This species most closely resembles C. turbineus and can be distinguished by the smaller size and by the elytralelytral:
pertaining to the elytra
vestiture uniseriate on all discaldiscal:
pertaining to the disc of either the pronotum or elytra
interstriae (except at basebase:
point or edge closest to the body; opposite of apex
).

May be confused with

Cryptoxyleborus eggersi, C. quadriporus, and C. turbineus

Distribution

Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, Thailand

Host plants

unknown (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