New Scolytidae and Platypodidae from the Papuan Subregion and New Caledonia. I. 271. Contribution to the Morphology and Taxonomy of the Scolytoidea.

Abstract

Descriptions are given of seven new species of Scolytidae Cryphalops dispar, Cyrtogenius peregrinus, Mimiophthorus orientalis, Ips inclinans, Xyleborus circumspinosus, Xyleborus immersus and Xyleborus papatrae, and nine new species of Platypodidae Crossotarsus gressitti, Crossotarsus spinipennis, Platypus advena, Platypus diffinis, Platypus distinctipes, Platypus diversiporus, Platypus fracticostis, Platypus grayi and Platypus vesculus and of the subspecies Platypus grayi immersus nov. subsp. Descriptions are also given for the first time of the females of Platypus enormis Schedl fem. nov. and Platypus praepositus Schedl fem. nov.