Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of the World

A group of morphologically similar species have been treated in the literatureas fornicatus Eichhoff. The taxonomy of these species was studied by Gómez et al. (2018) and treated as 4 separate species. Smith et al. (2019) re-examined the group and came to different conclusions in terms of nomenclature. Consequently the distributions and hosts listed under the name of fornicatus may refer to this species.