Phrixosoma nigra (Eggers)
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Phrixosoma nigra (Eggers) |
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Bothryperus niger Eggers 1933: 21
Phrixosoma nigra (Eggers): Wood and Bright 1992: 190
Hapalogenius niger Schedl 1952: 7, syn. n.
Metahylesinus niger (Schedl): Schedl 1960: 79
I have examined the holotype of Phrixosoma nigra (NHML), and the two syntypes of Hapalogenius niger and a further specimen standing under this name in the Schedl collection (NMW). Both species were described from Uganda, from the same host species ( Harungana madagascariensis ( Clusiaceae )), and are clearly synonymous. Schedl (1952) appears not to have noticed that the eyes of his species are bipartite, and that the antennal club is asymmetrical with a partly septate first segment - characteristics of Phrixosoma and not of Hapalogenius . Schedl (1963a) briefly describes the biology of the species, and illustrates the gallery system (as Bothryperus niger ).
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