Coccotrypes niger Eggers, 1927a

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 : 33

40. Coccotrypes niger Eggers, 1927a ( Fig. 8 )

Hosts: Unknown

Distribution in South Africa: Eastern Cape ( Osorio et al. 2017), KwaZulu-Natal ( Osorio et al. 2017), Mpumalanga.

New record: Mariepskop Forest Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 24°35'S, 30°50'E, 25 November 2009, FABI Sirex survey by-catch, Det. R. A. Beaver [ FABI] .

Notes: An additional record to indicate the presence of this species in South Africa is presented in Olivier-Espejel et al. (2017) but specific locality data for the record was not provided.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Lateral and dorsal views of Coccotrypes niger, from Mariepskop Forest Station, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Scale = 1mm.