Xylopsocus capucinus (Fabricius 1781)

Xylopsocus capucinus (Fabricius)

Apate capucinus Fabricius, 1781.

Bostrichus eremita Olivier, 1790.

Enneadesmus nicobaricus Redtenbacher, 1867.

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED DISTRIBUTION.—Brazil, Venezuela, Surinam, Trinidad; Old World Tropics (Blackwelder, 1945, p. 400; Fisher, 1950, p. 141; Kalshoven, 1963, p. 238).

DOMINICAN DISTRIBUTION.—Clarke Hall, 5 July 1964, 21 August 1964, T. J. Spilman.

BIOLOGY.—I found adults of this species living in old wooden poles that form the structural skeleton of the roof of the Clarke Hall picnic pavilion on the shore of the Layou River; some poles were so severely eaten that they could be easily broken by hand. Fisher (1950, p. 141) and Beeson and Bhatia (1937, p. 305) listed many species of wood this beetle infests in the Old World Tropics, that it was found in the wood of the grape in Brazil, and gave notes on habits. The larva was described and illustrated by Gardner (1933, pp. 16, 17, pl. 4: figs. 55–56).