Hypothenemus liberiensis, Wood & Bright, 1992

Nel, Wilma J., Duong, Tuan A., Fell, Shawn, Herron, Darryl A., Paap, Trudy, Wingfield, Michael J., Beer, Wilhelm De, Hulcr, Jiri & Johnson, Andrew J., 2025, A checklist of South African bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae, Platypodinae), Zootaxa 5648 (1), pp. 1-101 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5648.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A53B655-D261-4DFA-8AA7-6CA6E4DEF685

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A087E4-7408-C906-FF37-8789C5B3FE4C

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Plazi

scientific name

Hypothenemus liberiensis
status

 

143. Hypothenemus liberiensis View in CoL N ( Hopkins, 1915)

Stephanoderes liberiensis Hopkins, 1915 View in CoL

= Stephanoderes theobromae Eggers, 1932b View in CoL

Hosts: Coffea sp. , Delonix regia , Neltuma (= Prosopis ) chilensis, Theobroma cacao

Distribution in South Africa: Mpumalanga

New record: Hazyview, Transvaal [now Mpumalanga], South Africa, 25°04'S, 31°07'E, 03April 1990, Leg. Endrödy-Younga, Det. R GoogleMaps . A. Beaver [ DMNH] .

Notes: Hypothenemus liberiensis is a bark beetle known from Central and Western Africa ( Wood & Bright 1992). The species is known to infest Theobroma cacao , Coffea sp. and some Fabaceae ( Wood & Bright 1992; Vega et al. 2015).

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

DMNH

Delaware Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Hypothenemus

Loc

Hypothenemus liberiensis

Nel, Wilma J., Duong, Tuan A., Fell, Shawn, Herron, Darryl A., Paap, Trudy, Wingfield, Michael J., Beer, Wilhelm De, Hulcr, Jiri & Johnson, Andrew J. 2025
2025
Loc

Stephanoderes theobromae

Eggers 1932
1932
Loc

Stephanoderes liberiensis

Hopkins 1915
1915
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