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Euwallacea

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ14923551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Euwallacea is a genus of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. They are commonly known as Ambrosia beetles, as all species are symbiotic with Ambrosia fungi. Originally from Asia or Wallacea, they are now found worldwide. Many species are pests, causing damage to, or the death of, tree species valued for their fruit or timber.

Species

The following species are recognized in this genus:

References

Further reading

Wood, Stephen L.; Bright, Donald E. Jr. (1992). "A Catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2: Taxonomic Index. Volume A". Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs. 13: 651–833.

Editorial summary

“Euwallacea” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Euwallacea, genus and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Euwallacea, genus and insects.
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Why this record matters

“Euwallacea” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Euwallacea, genus and insects provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q14923551. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Euwallacea primary sources, Euwallacea archive and Euwallacea research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Euwallacea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.