Department of Entomology Holistic Insect Systematics Laboratory

Electronic resources resulting from Scolytinae and Platypodinae 

• Xyleborini – Taxonomic database for worldwide Xyleborini
• Bibliography of Scolytinae and Platypodinae literature from the 1700’s to 2000. 
• Southeast Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID
• Key to the World genera of Xyleborini
• Xyleborini of New Guinea: Keys to genera and species.
• Former student, Dr. Jiri Hulcr’s: The Ambrosia Symbiosis website

Camptocerus videos of behavior

• Camptocerus videos of behavior: Camptocerus courtship: A male Camptocerus noel is on Protium amazonicum Swart bark at an entrance hole created by and occupied by a female. The male periodically brushes his antennal funicular setae across the female’s elytra in a fluttering motion and produces a whirling sound. He then repeatedly placed his frons against her abdomen, which corresponds to the concavity of his frons. The male periodically chirps using his elytra-abdominal stridulatory mechanism. The male’s abdominal segments vibrate as he chirps.

• Camptocerus videos of behavior: Mate competition: Two male Camptocerus noel are on the bark of Protium amazonicum. The first male courts a female by placing his frons against her abdomen as she sits in the entrance tunnel to her gallery. The second male walks on the bark near the first male and female. As the second male approaches the pair, the first male pushes him away with his frons and promptly returns to the female. He resumes the courtship behavior.

• Camptocerus videos of behavior: Crematogaster predation: A moribund male Camptocerus noel was attacked on Protium amazonicum bark and is carried off by numerous Crematogaster Ants also enter the gallery where the female was present.

Datasets

• Cognato, A.I., Smith, S.M., and R.A. Beaver. 2020. Two new genera of Oriental xyleborine ambrosiabeetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Zootaxa. NEXUS FILE.
• Cognato A.I., Sari G., Smith S.M., Beaver R.A., Li Y., Hulcr J., Jordal B.H., Kajimura H., Lin C-S., Pham T.H., Singh S., and Sittichaya W. The essential role of taxonomic expertise in the creation of DNA databases for the identification and delimitation of Southeast Asian ambrosia beetles species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8:27. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00027, NEXUS FILE: COI. NEXUS FILE: CAD.
• Cognato, A.I., S.M. Smith, B.H. Jordal. in press. Patterns of host tree use within a lineage of saproxlic snout-less weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Scolytini).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. NEXUS FILES-DNA DATA, CONIFER GENERA, FEEDING HABIT, GEOGRAPHY, HOST FAMILY.