Hylurgops transbaicalicus, Eggers, 1941

Mandelshtam, M. Yu. & Petrov, A. V., 2019, A key to species of the tribe Hylastini LeConte, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Russia and adjacent countries, Russian Entomological Journal 28 (4), pp. 389-399 : 398

7. H. transbaicalicus Eggers, 1941

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: southern parts of Sakha Republic, Khabarovsk Terr., Primorsk Terr., Kamchatka Prov. (imported with wood); Asia ( Japan) .

HOSTS. Pinus koraiensis , less commonly on Picea jezoensis and Larix sp.

NOTES. This species was erroneously referred to as Hylurgops imitator in most Russian entomological literature [e.g. Kurentsov, 1941; Stark, 1952; Krivolutskaya, 1996 and other uncited sources], but as we have demonstrated by the investigation of types in NHMB and USNM, H. imitator is a synonym of H. interstitialis and, hence, H. transbaicalicus is a valid species.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We express our most sincere gratitude to Dr. Boris Korotyaev (Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia), Dr. Nikolay Nikitsky and Alexey Gusakov (Zoological Museum of Moscow University, Russia), Dr. Harald Schillhammer and late Dr. Heinrich Schönmann (Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria), Dr. Otto Merkl (Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary), Dr. Natalia Vandenberg and Lourdes Chamorro ( United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA) for providing access to the collections. The authors thanks Kirill Makarov, Yuri Sundukov, Maksim Sergeev for the provided entomological material. Our most sincere gratitude is addressed to Dr. Kirill Makarov for permit to use his high-quality photographs for the paper. Dr. Bjarte Jordal (University of Bergen, Norway) is thanked for helpful hints allowed to improve manuscript and checking the language. The research was supported by a grant from the Russian Fund for Basic Research (No. 17–04–00360a). Studies in Kazakhstan Republic were supported by grant of Kazakhstan Republic No. AP05134299 “Monitoring of trunk pests ( Scolytinae ) populations on endemic Schrenk spruce in Trans-Ili Alatau”.