Anisandrus ursulus
Creators: name: Sittichaya, Wisut
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Anisandrus
Anisandrus ursulus

description: Anisandrus ursulus (Eggers, 1923)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 2; recordedBy: Vít Kubáň; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: NHB; occurrenceID: B559B261-0364-5775-9792-ED7165E15366; Location: country: Laos PDR; stateProvince: Hua Phan; locality: Phu Phan Mt. [mountain]; verbatimElevation: ~ 1750 m; verbatimCoordinates: 20 ° 12 ' N, 104 ° 01 ' E; Identification: identifiedBy: Smith S.; Event: eventDate: 03. vi. 2007
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Vít Kubáň; individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 9141C501-CFAB-50FA-AA98-01B85AEADFAD; Location: country: Laos; stateProvince: Phongsaly; locality: Phongsaly env.; verbatimElevation: ~ 1500 m; verbatimCoordinates: 21 ° 41-2 ' N, 102 ° 06-8 ' E; Identification: identifiedBy: Smith S; Event: eventDate: 8. v. - 20. vi. 2003
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Brancucci; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: NHB; occurrenceID: FCE80182-237B-57A6-A6A3-1FEE7110A664; Location: country: Laos; stateProvince: Phongsaly; locality: Phongsaly env.; verbatimElevation: ~ 1500 m; verbatimCoordinates: 21 ° 41 ' N, 102 ° 6 ' E; Identification: identifiedBy: Smith s; Event: eventDate: 6. - 17. v. 2004
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: D. Hauck; individualCount: 2; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: NHB; occurrenceID: 9933E070-0D18-5619-A114-C6FEFEA8BCFF; Location: country: Laos; stateProvince:, Phongsaly env., 6. - 17. v. 2004, ~ 1500 m, M. Brancucci leg. (1, NHB). Xieng; locality: Phonsavan (30 km NE): Phou Sane Mt.; verbatimElevation: 1420 m; verbatimCoordinates: 19 ° 38.20 ' N, 103 ° 20.20 ' E; Identification: identifiedBy: Smith S; Event: eventDate: 10. - 30. v. 2009
Description
4.3–4.9 mm long (mean = 4.5 mm; n = 5); 1.88–1.96 × as long as wide. Body large size, robust and stout, brown to black in colour, appendages paler; densely covered with fine, moderately long, erect, dark brown hair-like setae. Pronotum from dorsal view round (type 1) anterior margin armed with 5 serrations, the middle pair is prominent; pronotal base with mesonotal mycangial tuft the length of the scutellum; elytra short, disc convex; lateral side parallel to apical 1 / 3 then broadly rounded to apex; declivity obliquely truncate, unarmed, declivital striae not impressed and posterolateral margins obliquely truncate armed with small tubercles.
Distribution
China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi), India (Nicobar Is, West Bengal), Indonesia (Bali, Batoe Is, Java, Maluku, Sulawesi, Sumatra), Laos, East and West Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Vietnam (Smith et al. 2020). New to Laos (Hua Phan, Phongsaly, Xieng Khouang).
description: Published as part of Sittichaya, Wisut & Smith, Sarah M., 2024, Anisandrus bolavenensis sp. nov. (Col.: Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini), a new ambrosia beetle from Laos, pp. e 130023 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130023, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130023