Ficicis despectus

Ficicis despectus (Walker) Hylesinus despectus Walker, 1859: 261. Ficicis despectus (Walker): Wood 1992: 82. Hylesinus samoanus Schedl, 1951: 142. Synonymy: Wood 1992: 82. Schedl (1951a) described this species as Hylesinus samoanus based on specimens from Tutuila (Afono trail, Amouli and Fagatogo) and Samoa. The species occurs throughout the Oriental region and eastwards to New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands. Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Iliili, Malaeimi.Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/392789