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Resurrection of Heteroborips Reitter, 1913 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Synonymy with Xyleborus Eichhoff, 1864
2019-06-01
Abstract excerpt
Xyleborine ambrosia beetles bore galleries into wood to cultivate symbiotic fungi for larval and adult food. This habit and their haplodiploid mating system have contributed to their diversification in forest habitats throughout the world. There are ∼1,200 species divided in 37 genera that have been recently revised in a phylogenetic framework. To continue to equate genera with monophyletic groups, we investigated...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 74258ab4-c872-56cc-a47b-32fcd33978d6
- DOI
- 10.1649/0010-065x-73.2.387
