Euwallacea declivispinatus Schedl, new combination

Euwallacea declivispinatus (Schedl): new combination Xyleborus declivispinatus Schedl, 1969: 216. Ambrosiodmus declivispinatus (Schedl): Wood & Bright, 1992: 672. Xyleborus declivispinatus (Schedl): Hulcr and Cognato, 2013: 151. Specimens examined. New Guinea, Chimbu Province, Karamui (paratype, FICB); New Guinea, Oro Province, Kanga (30 indiv., JH) Comments. Hulcr & Cognato (2013) provide notes on biology and taxonomic history of this species with striking morphology. Adults of this species have been observed to create galleries in the same way as other large specimens of Euwallacea, further supporting the taxonomic move. They create extensive tunnels that branch several times on one horizontal plane. Adults colonize large moist branches or trunks, typically fallen in water.Published as part of Storer, Caroline G., Breinholt, Jesse W. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2015, Wallacellus is Euwallacea: molecular phylogenetics settles generic relationships (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), pp. 391-400 in Zootaxa 3974 (3) on pages 395-396, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/23939