Animalia Coleoptera Curculionidae SittichayaWisutSmithSarah M.BeaverRoger A.ThaochanNaritRevision of the xyleborine ambrosia beetle genus Microperus Wood, 1980 (Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini) of Thailand with four new species and four newly recorded speciesZookeys03122021107419121410.3897/zookeys.1074.76235 B53F4E8A-A98F-5C52-BB8E-062533B958A6 Microperus Wood, 1980 Microperus Wood, 1980: 94.Type species.

Xyleborustheae Eggers, 1940 (= Xyleborusmyristicae Schedl, 1939); original designation.

Diagnosis.

This genus is distinguished by the following combination of characters: small to minute size, 1.2–3.1 mm long and cylindrical and elongate form, 1.9–3.2× as long as wide; antennal club truncate or flattened, segment 1 costate, segment 2 or segments 2 and 3 visible on anterior side small and appearing soft, segment 2 or segments 2 and 3 visible on posterior side (types 2, 3, 4 of Hulcr et al. 2007 and Smith et al. 2020); elytral base sinuate, rarely transverse, with a dense tuft of setae present along elytral base associated with an elytral mycangium; scutellum minute or not apparent; strial and interstrial punctures arranged in parallel rows, striae punctate, prominent; pronotum from lateral view taller than basic (type 2 of Hulcr et al. 2007) or with pronotal disc longer than anterior slope (type 7); pronotum from dorsal view basic and parallel-sided (type 2), or subquadrate (type 3), and anterior margin of pronotum without a row of serrations.

Similar genera.

Coptodryas, Xyleborinus

New species
HulcrJDoleSABeaverRACognatoAI (2007) Cladistic review of generic taxonomic characters in Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae).Systematic Entomology32: 568584. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2007.00386.xSmithSMBeaverRACognatoAI (2020) A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China.ZooKeys983: 1442. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.983.52630