Cryphalus mangiferae Stebbing, 1914

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 : 28-29

24. Cryphalus mangiferae Stebbing, 1914 ( Fig. 5 )

= Cryphalus inops Eichhoff, 1872

= Hypothenemus griseus Blackburn, 1885

= Hypocryphalus mangiferae Eggers, 1928a

= Hypocryphalus mangiferae Beeson, 1929

= Cryphalus mimicus Schedl, 1942a

= Cryphalus subcylindricus Schedl, 1942a

= Hypocryphalus opacus Schedl, 1942a

= Taenioglyptes artestriatus Browne, 1970

Hosts: Mangifera indica ; Choerospondias axillaris

Distribution in South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga

New records: Timbadola Sawmill, Limpopo, South Africa, 23°01'S, 30°11'E, 22 December 2009, FABI Sirex survey by-catch, Det. R. A. Beaver [ FABI]. Mpumalanga, South Africa, from Mangifera indica , 12 June 2019, Leg. S Schoeman, Det. J. Hulcr [ FABI] .

Notes: Cryphalus mangiferae is a bark beetle commonly encountered in tropical regions where it preferentially infests mango ( Mangifera indica ) ( Rabaglia et al. 2020). Throughout these regions the beetle has mistakenly garnered a reputation as the vector of three Ceratocystis pathogens of mango (Al-Adawi et al. 2013a & b) due to a widespread misidentification ( Johnson et al. 2017; Rabaglia et al. 2020).

CRYPTURGINI LeConte, 1876

Figures

FIGURE 5. Lateral and dorsal views of Cryphalus mangiferae, from Mpumalanga, South Africa, specimen ID = F0423. Scale = 1mm.