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Species Pseudothysanoes turnbowi

Pseudothysanoes turnbowi Wood - Pseudothysanoes turnbowi - male
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 Micracidini
Genus Pseudothysanoes
Species turnbowi (Pseudothysanoes turnbowi)
Explanation of Names
Pseudothysanoes turnbowi Wood 1977
Patronym for coleopterist Robert H. Turnbow, Jr. who collected the majority of the type series.
Size
1.3 mm (Wood 1977)
Range
s. TX. Certainly in adjacent Mexico. (Thomas H. Atkinson, 19 December, 2009)
Food
69 spmns reared from Mesquite - Prosopis glandulosa (Wood 1977)
Remarks
Type Locality: Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, Hidalgo Co., TX
Print References
Wood, S.L. 1977. New synonymy and new species of American bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Part IV. Great Basin Naturalist 37(2): 207-220. (Full PDF)
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