Stephen L. Wood

New synonymy and new species of American bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Part II.

. New synonymy of American Scolytidae is proposed as follows: Corthylus Erichson ( = Pseudocorthylus Ferrari), Hylesinus Fabricius ( Leperisinus Reitter), Monarthrum Kirsch ( Anchonocerus Eichhoff), Corthylus spinifer Schwarz ( = Metacorthylus af finis Fonseca, Corthylus af finis Fonseca), Cryphalus ruficollis Hopkins ( = Cryphalus amabilis Chamberlin, Cryphalus coloradensis Wood), Gnathotiichus retusus (LeConte) ( = Gnathot richus alni Blackman), Gnathotiichus sulcatus (LeConte) ( = Gnathotiichus aciculatus Blackman), Hypothenemus eruditus Westwood ( = Hypothenemus germari Eichhoff, Stephanoderes myrmedon Eichhoff, Stephanoderes intersetosus Eggers), Hypothenemus seriatus Eichhoff ( = Stephanoderes nitidulus Hopkins, Stephanoderes subopacicollis Hopkins), Hypothenemus obscurus (Fabricius) ( Stephanoderes asperulus Eichhoff, Stephanoderes cassiae Eichhoff), Pityophthorus annectens LeConte ( = Pityophthorus citus Blackman), Pityophthorus balsameus Blackman ( = Pityophthorus patchi Blackman), Pityophthorus briscoei Blackman ( = Pityophthorus mundus Blackman), Pityophthorus cariniceps LeConte ( = Pityophthorus cognatus Blackman), Pityophthorus confertus Swaine ( = Pityophthorus agnatus Blackman, Pityophthorus comptus Blackman), Pityophthorus confusus Blandford ( = Pityophthorus bellus Blackman), Pityophthorus consimilis LeConte ( = Pityophthorus nudus Swaine), Pityophthorus fuscus Blackman ( = Pityophthorus smithi Schedi), Pityophthorus immanis Blackman ( = Pityophthorus sulcatus Bright), Pityophthorus murrayanae Blackman ( = Pityophthorus gracilis Swaine, Pityophthorus cutleri Swaine, Pityophthorus exilis Swaine, Pityophthorus depygis Blackman, Pityophthorus watsoni Schedi, Pityophthorus aurulentis Bright), Pityophthorus ornatus Blackman ( Pityophthorus limatus Wood), Pityophthorus pseudotsugae Swaine ( = Pityophthorus thatcheri Bright), Pityophthorus pullus Zimmermann ( = Pityophthorus bisulcatus Eichhoff), Scolytodes levis (Blackman) ( Ctenophorus laevigatus Chapuis, Scolytodes chapuisi Wood). The following species are named as new to science: Pityophthorus crotonis (Venezuela), Scolytodes constrictus, S. festus, S. praeceps (Colombia), S. canaliculus. , S. contractus , S. jucundus, S. opacus, S. opimus, S. serenus, S. suturalis, and S. varius (Venezuela). On the following pages several newly discovered cases of synonymy and 12 species new to science are presented for American Scolytidae. The species new to science represent the genera Scolytodes (11) and Pityophthorus (1) and were taken in Colombia (3) and Venezuela (9).