Xyleborus resinosus Schedl 1939 (bark beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: K. E. Schedl. 1939. Ambrosia beetles from copal (Scolytidae and Platypodidae). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 4(22):468-471
Belongs to Xyleborus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Schedl 1939 and Wood and Bright 1992
Sister taxa: Xyleborus alluaudi, Xyleborus dispar, Xyleborus dryographus, Xyleborus ferrugineus, Xyleborus perforans, Xyleborus priscus
Type specimen: Its type locality is East Africa Copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at East Africa Copal (BMNH coll)
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