Xyleborus ferrugineus (Fabricius) Bostrichus ferrugineus Fabricius, 1801: 388. Xyleborus ferrugineus (Fabricius): Ferrari 1867: 23. Xyleborus confusus Eichhoff, 1868: 401. Synonymy: Wood 1957: 403. Beeson (1929) and Schedl (1951a) reported this species as X. confusus Eichhoff from Tutuila. This species is probably of American origin, but its distribution is now circumtropical (Gohli et al. 2016). Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Aoa, Fagaalu, Fagaitua, Iliili, Leone, Malaeimi, Maloata, Masausi, Vaitogi; Aunu‘u Isl.; Ofu Isl.: Ofu; Olosega Isl.: Olosega; Ta‘ū Isl.: Faleasao, Fitiuta, Ta‘ū.

Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891