Check List 18(5): 1165-1175, doi: 10.15560/18.5.1165
Distribution of Phloeosinus tacubayae Hopkins, 1905 (Curculionidae, Scolytinae), the Cypress Bark Beetle, and new records from potential distribution models
Montserrat Cervantes-Espinoza‡§, Gerardo Cuellar-Rodríguez|, Enrico Alejandro Ruíz§, Thomas H. Atkinson¶, José Francisco García Ochaeta#, Juan Alfredo Hernández-García¤, Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano‡‡ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico§ Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, Mexico| Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico¶ University of Texas, Austin, United States of America# Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Fitosanitario Petén, Petén, Guatemala¤ Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico
Corresponding author: Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano ( farmendariztoledano@ib.unam.mx ) Academic editor: Juan Pablo Botero Rodriguez © Montserrat Cervantes-Espinoza, Gerardo Cuellar-Rodríguez, Enrico Alejandro Ruíz, Thomas H. Atkinson, José Francisco García Ochaeta, Juan Alfredo Hernández-García, Francisco Armendáriz-Toledano. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Cervantes-Espinoza M, Cuellar-Rodríguez G, Ruiz EA, Atkinson H, García Ochaeta JF, Hernández-García JA, Armendáriz-Toledano F (2022) Distribution of Phloeosinus tacubayae Hopkins, 1905 (Curculionidae, Scolytinae), the Cypress Bark Beetle, and new records from potential distribution models. Check List 18(5): 1165-1175. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.5.1165 |  |
Abstract
We evaluated the biotic and abiotic conditions related to the presence of Phloeosinus tacubayae Hopkins, 1905, to update its distribution and explore new areas to collect the species from potential distribution models and establish its host range. Our results support that P. tacubayae is an oligophagous species distributed mostly in five provinces from the Mexican Transition Zone; its distribution pattern belongs to the Nearctic cenocron and is related to the distribution pattern of its principal host. The modeling and distribution of its hosts suggest invadable zones where new records may exist.
Keywords
Geographic range, maximum entropy, Mexican biogeographic provinces, Nearctic cenocron