Cryphalus mangiferae Stebbing, 1914

Buhroo, Abdul Ahad, 2024, A taxonomic monograph of subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Western Himalaya, Zootaxa 5533 (1), pp. 1-82 : 14-15

7. Cryphalus mangiferae Stebbing, 1914

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= inops Eichhoff, 1872 ( Cryphalus )

= griseus Blackburn, 1885 ( Hypothenemus )

= mangiferae Eggers, 1928

= mimicus Schedl, 1942 ( Cryphalus )

= opacus Schedl, 1942

= subcylindricus Schedl, 1942 ( Cryphalus )

This species is diagnosed by the following morphological characters: ♀ frons broadly convex with fine, weakly converging aciculations, obscure small punctures at sides and above; vestiture of sparse, fine hair, longer on epistoma; eyes oval, anterior margin moderately emarginate; antennal funicle with five segments, club sub-circular, rather strongly flattened, with three moderately procurved sutures, indicated by grooves and rows of setae; pronotum 1.15× wider than long; widest in line with summit, sides arcuately converging and broadly rounded in front; anterior margin armed by four to six widely spaced serrations, median pair larger; summit well behind middle, anterior slope coarsely asperate; areas between asperities and in lateral and discal areas densely, finely granulate; vestiture of abundant, fine, short, recumbent hairs, some sparse erect bristles also present; suture between pronotum and elytra weakly sinuate; scutellum distinct and somewhat triangular with sparse, pale, hair-like setae; elytra 1.44× as long as wide, 1.66× as long as pronotum; sides parallel up to middle, posteriorly very broadly rounded; striae somewhat obscure with minute, obsolete punctures on disc and somewhat deep on declivity; interstriae nearly three times wider than striae, covered by dense, fine, confused punctures on disc and declivity; declivity occupying more than posterior third of elytral length, moderately steep, convex; declivital interstriae comparatively narrower and somewhat arched; elytral vestiture of abundant small, somewhat triangular, dagger-like scales and interstrial rows of erect bristles of moderate length; ventrites with mostly hair-like setae, last abdominal ventrite with margin of rounded tubercles; body yellowish-brown; body length: 1.96 mm, 2.25× as long as wide.

Male similar to female, except pronotal profile somewhat triangular and last abdominal ventrite weakly emarginated. 1.94–1.99 mm long, 2.20× as long as wide.

Material examined: New records: India: 1 ♀, 3 ♂ ′s. Himachal Pradesh, Pawarnoo (30° 83.875 N, 076° 99.451′ E, 810 m), A.A. Buhroo, 20.02.2018 ( KUIC). Himachal Pradesh, Gaghar (32° 09.463′ N, 076° 16.697′ E, 2584 ft.), A.A. Buhroo, 26.09.2018 ( KUIC) .

Distribution: India: Himachal Pradesh (new record), Uttarakhand. Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hawaii, Micronesia, Africa, Australia, Madagascar, North America & South America

Hosts: Mangifera indica ( Anacardiaceae ).