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Beetles

ambrosia beetle
Xyleborus monographus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini)

Status
Exotic (absent from Australia)

Dorsal view female

Caption: Slov. C. Plastovce, June 1997, M. Knizek det. M. Knizek
Source: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museum Victoria

Antennal club obliquely truncate, not strongly flattened, basal corneous portion larger, margin recurved; pregula impressed.

Adults (Female- 2.5 - 3.6mm; Male 1.8 - 2.5mm) are light red-brown, slightly darker towards apex of elytra.

Punctures on declivital striae weakly defined, medium area of elytral declivity smooth and impunctate area, declivital interstriae curved around this area; granules on declivital interstriae small, bluntly rounded, sparsely separated on elytral declivity, granules on declivital interstriae 1 not extending to apex of elytra, granules on declivital interstriae 2 and 3 extending to apex of elytra; granules declivital interstriae 1 largest.