Amasa macarthorum Sittichaya & Smith 2022

Amasa macarthorum Sittichaya & Smith, 2022 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: female; disposition: Wisut Sittichaya Private Collection; occurrenceID: 2713AFF2-8E2A-5E58-B412-5AE1F87A30F4; Taxon: kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Curculionidae; genus: Amasa; specificEpithet: macarthorum; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Sittichaya & Smith, 2022; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: country: Thailand; locality: Songkhla Province, Hat Yai District; verbatimElevation: 120 m; verbatimCoordinates: 6 ° 55 ' 20.8 " N 100 ° 14 ' 48.8 " E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sittichaya & Smith; Event: eventDate: 12. viii. 2024; habitat: tropical rainforest; Record Level: type: Non type Distribution Thailand: Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Songkhla. Notes Biology: The hosts and biology of A. macarthorum was previously unknown. This species breeds in small branches (2–4 cm in diameter) of C. inermis (newly-recorded host). Eggs were deposited in 2–3 clusters per gallery, each cluster contained 4– 6 eggs. Developmental stages of progeny varied amongst individuals within each gallery. A total of 12–26 progeny were recorded per gallery (n = 5), with a strongly female-biased sex ratio of 16: 1 (n = 2).