Scolytus nunbergi
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https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.4.07 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E3B52-1A28-FFCE-A64B-FBCDFEAA9FDC |
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Felipe |
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Scolytus nunbergi |
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Scolytus jacobsoni (Spessivtsev, 1919) View in CoL
= nunbergi Michalski, 1964 syn.n.
We studied the female holotype of Scolytus nunbergi (ZIN) and compared the morphology of this type with 65 S. jacobsoni females from the southern parts of Primorsky Krai (Maritime Terr., Russian Far-East). We found similarity of habitus and elytra puncturation of S. nunbergi with S. jacobsoni , and three S. jacobsoni females have frons morphology identical to those of S. nunbergi . The right protrusion of ventrite 4 in S. nunbergi holotype is not symmetrical with the protrusion on the left. These protrusions are presumably the result of a mutation and are morphological aberrations. There were no observations of beetles with similar ventrtite 4 protuberance since its description. Thus, we consider S. nunbergi to be a junior synonym of S. jacobsoni .
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