Euwallacea xanthopus

As currently understood, this is an African species. Distribution and host records from Asia probably refer to E. semirudis (Blandford). Localities from Wood & Bright (1992:696) are taken only from those synonyms currently remaining under E. xanthopus.

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Euwallacea validus

Genus / Species: Euwallacea validus | Image Author: TH Atkinson | Location: Japan, Japan (country / region) | Image Type: syntype | Collection: Entomology

Records of this species from the lower southeastern U.S. may actually be E. interjectus based on results of Cognato et al. 2017 (J. Econ. Entomol. 108: 1129). Records reported/identified prior to 2015 are not mapped.

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Euwallacea fornicatus

Genus / Species: Euwallacea fornicatus | Image Author: TH Atkinson | Location: Sri Lanka, Peradeniya | Image Type: lectotype | Collection: Entomology

A group of morphologically similar species have been treated in the literature under this name. 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 listed distributions and host list under the name of fornicatus cannot be taken at face value.

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