Notes on Oriental Scolytus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
M.Yu. Mandelshtam & A.V. Petrov
Abstract. New synonymies in the genus Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762 are established: S. koltzei Reitter, 1894 = S. yablonianus Murayama, 1943 = S. shanhaiensis Yin et Huang, 1980; S. ventrosus Schevyrew, 1890 = S. trispinosus Strohmeyer, 1908. Scolytus kononovi Kurentsov, 1941 is justified as a distinct species from S. semenovi (Spessivtsev, 1919). The synonymy of S. formosanus Eggers, 1939 with S. frontalis Blandford, 1894 is confirmed.
Key words: bark beetles, Palaearctics, Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Scolytus, new synonymy
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2016, 25(2): 295–298 ▪ Published in print 27 December 2016
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2016.25.2.295 ▪ Open full article 
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