Hapalogenius oblongus (Eggers)

Beaver, Roger A, 2010, Taxonomic notes on the afrotropical genera Hapalogenius Hagedorn, Hylesinopsis Eggers, and Rhopalopselion Hagedorn (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 56, pp. 157-170 : 161

Hapalogenius oblongus (Eggers)

Pseudophloeotribus oblongus Eggers 1935: 299.

Metahylesinus oblongus (Eggers): Schedl 1960: 80.

Hylesinopsis oblongus (Eggers): Wood and Bright 1992: 95.

Hapalogenius oblongus (Eggers): Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009: 69.

Metahylesinus striatus Schedl 1957: 865, syn. n.

The holotypes of both oblongus and striatus are in NHML. They have been directly compared, and I consider that they represent a single species, with minor variation in the density of the vestiture. I have also examined a series collected by Dr. B. Valentine in Kenya, and compared them with the holotype of Hapalogenius oblongus . The species is recorded from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and from the host tree genera: Acacia (Leguminosae), Croton ( Euphorbiaceae ) and Eucalyptus ( Myrtaceae ). This suggests that it is a polyphagous species.