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A New Species of Pityophthorus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) from Alberta1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. R. Hopping
Affiliation:
Forest Biology Laboratory, Calgary, Alberta.

Extract

Swaine (1918) recognized 31 species of Pityophthorus. Subsequently 91 new species have been described (Blackman 1920, 1921, 1922a, 1922b, 1928; Swaine 1925; Schedl 1930, 1931) making a total of 122. Some have been transferred to other genera, and others have been placed in synonymy (Blackman 1928; Wood 1957) leaving 115 species now recognized. The following description of a new species was prepared after examination of 50 species of Pityophthorus, including examples from the U.S. National Museum, the Canadian National Collection, and Forest Biology Laboratories across Canada. The loan of this material is greatly appreciated. No species have been described previously from alpine larch, Larix lyallii Parl. The description is based on examination at a magnification of 50 times.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1960

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