Species Euwallacea fornicatus - Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited

Compact, apically hairy, brown-red-black Shot-hole Borer [Beetle] with distinct pronotal vertex - Euwallacea fornicatus

Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer - Euwallacea fornicatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Scolytinae (Bark and Ambrosia Beetles)

Tribe Xyleborini

Genus Euwallacea

Species fornicatus (Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer)

Other Common Names

PSHB

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

The name E. whitfordiodendrus (Schedl 1942) was synonymized with E. fornicatus by Wood (1989) (1) and was resurrected by Gomez et al. (2018) (2). Following the rediscovery of the E. fornicatus syntype(3), E. whitfordiodendrus was re-synonymized with E. fornicatus.

Explanation of Names

Current comb.: Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff, 1868)

Identification

virtually indistinguishable from others in the "fornicatus" clade, however...

if the "E. fornicatus" you have are from San Diego or Tijuana River they are E. kuroshio, and the ones from the Los Angeles area are E. fornicatus. Those in FL and HI are E. perbrevis. -Pers. Comm. R.J. Rabaglia, 2019

Range

Native to China, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Introduced in the United States (California: Los Angeles area)(3)

Internet References

E. fornicatus in CA (Stouthamer 2013)

Works Cited

1.	Nomenclatural changes and new species of Scolytidae (Coleoptera), Part IV Stephen L. Wood. 1989. Great Basin Naturalist.

2.	Species Delineation Within the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Complex Revealed by Morphometric and Phyloge... Gomez, D.F., Skelton, J., Steininger, M.S., Stouthamer, R., Rugman-Jones, P., Sittichaya, W., Rabaglia, R.J., Hulcr, J. . 2018. Insect Systematics and Diversity.

3.	Reassessment of the Species in the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Complex after the Rediscover... Smith, S.M, et al. 2019. Insects.

Contributed by Marc DiGirolomo on 13 March, 2019 - 12:52pm
Last updated 13 June, 2023 - 7:31am

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