Ein neuer Splintkäfer (Scolytus tiburtinus n. sp.) aus dem Diluvialtravertin Nordwestthüringens (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).

Abstract

Till now the new Scolytus tiburtinus has been found only petrified in the "Travertin" of Mühlhausen i. Thür. From the galleries bred into the sap-wood we can conclude a beetle nearly 4 mm in lenth and 2 mm breadth. The primary gallery is a cross-way; the galleries of the larvae - about 12 - are club-shaped. Their form is characteristic: the lower ones in a straight line, those situated in the middle show a curved line, and the upper ones running off rectangularly ent. The host plant is a foliage-tree, probably oak (Quercus), possibly hornbeam (Carpinus). A recent kind may exist (Canada, Siberia, Far East).

Nomenclatural Acts

tiburtinus Claus, 1958 (Scolytus), spec. n.