Genus Cnestus Sampson, 1911

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• Cnestus Sampson, F.W. 1911. On two new wood-boring beetles (Ipidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8(45): 381-384 [Date published IX-1911] [383].

  Type species:

   Cnestus magnus Sampson, 1911 by monotypy.
• Tosaxyleborus Murayama, J. 1950. A new genus and some new species of Scolytidae from Japan (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Shikoku Entomological Society 1(4): 49-53 [Date published IX-1950] [49] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Tosaxyleborus pallidipennis Murayama, 1950 (secondary homonym of Xyleborus pallidipennis Eggers, 1940; = Cnestus murayamai Schedl, 1962, replacement name) by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Browne, F.G. 1955. Synonymy and descriptions of some oriental Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera). Sarawak Museum Journal 6(5): 343-373 [368] (for Tosaxyleborus)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

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