Hadrodemius pseudocomans

Taxonomic history

Xyleborus pseudocomans Eggers, 1930: 187.

Hadrodemius pseudocomans (Eggers): Wood and Bright, 1992: 819.

Synonyms

Xyleborus artecomans Schedl, 1953c: 24. Beaver, 2010: 55.

Diagnosis

6.0–7.2 mm long (mean = 6.86 mm; n = 5); 1.8−1.9 times as long as wide. This species can be distinguished by its larger size; elytralelytral:
pertaining to the elytra
declivitydeclivity:
downward slope of either the pronotum or elytra
strongly impressedimpressed:
a depression in a surface
, sides of impression raised and bearing tuberclestubercle:
a small knob-like or rounded protuberance of the exoskeleton
or rugosities; and elytralelytral:
pertaining to the elytra
impression bearing fairly sparse, long hairs or short hairs only.

This species is most similar to H. comans, from which it can be distinguished by the strongly impressedimpressed:
a depression in a surface
declivitydeclivity:
downward slope of either the pronotum or elytra
rather than the declivitydeclivity:
downward slope of either the pronotum or elytra
plano-concave from suture to interstriaeinterstria:
longitudinal spaces along the elytra between the striae, which is not as<br /> impressed and bear smaller punctures.
3.

May be confused with

Hadrodemius comans

Distribution

Brunei, China (Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Xizang, Yunnan), India (Assam, West Bengal), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand

Host plants

polyphagous (Beaver 2010Beaver 2010:
Beaver RA. 2010. A review of the genus Hadrodemius Wood, with new synonymy and a key to species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Zootaxa 2444: 51-57. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2444.1.3)

DNA data

specimens not available for sequencing