The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Friday, December 16, 2005 - 10:18 AM
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A new genus of bark beetle (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Bothrosternina) from Ecuador

Stephanie A. Stephens, ss@beetlelady.com and Anthony I. Cognato, a-cognato@tamu.edu. Texas A&M University, Entomology, TAMU 2475, College Station, TX

A new genus of bark beetle (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Bothrosternina), collected in Ecuador is described. This genus has a remarkable character of the scutellum, which is unlike any other known species of Scolytinae. Preliminary phylogenetic placement of the genus within Bothrosternina is also presented.


Species 1: Coleoptera Curculionidae
Keywords: Phylogenetics

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