Coccotrypes sierraleonensis

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

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/03A087E4-7414-C91A-FF37-8368C037FA6E

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Plazi

scientific name

Coccotrypes sierraleonensis
status

 

41. Coccotrypes sierraleonensis N ( Eggers, 1932b)

Poecilips sierraleonensis Eggers, 1932b View in CoL

= Poecilips confusus Eggers, 1940 View in CoL

Hosts: Polyphagous

Distribution in South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal

New record: Dukuduku Forest Station, Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 28°22'S, 32°19'E, 07 April 1974, Leg. Endrödy-Younga, Det. R GoogleMaps . A. Beaver [ DMNH] .

Notes: The combination Coccotrypes confusus has been erroneously given priority (e.g. Schedl 1962; Wood & Bright 1992). The species is known to infest a variety of hosts including Coffea liberica (Liberian coffee) and Mangifera indica (mango) ( Wood & Bright 1992), the latter of which is grown commercially in South Africa.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

DMNH

Delaware Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Coccotrypes

Loc

Coccotrypes sierraleonensis

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

Poecilips confusus

Eggers 1940
1940
Loc

Poecilips sierraleonensis

Eggers 1932
1932
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