Hylurgops interstitialis, Mandelshtam, M. Yu. & Petrov, A. V., 2019

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 : 397

3. H. interstitialis (Chapuis, 1875) .

= imitator (Reitter, 1900) .

= niponicus Murayama, 1936 .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Amur Prov., southern part of Khabarovsk Terr., Primorsk Terr., Magadan prov. (import- ed with wood), Kamchatka Prov. (imported with wood); Asia ( China, including Northeast provinces: Heilongjiang, Jilin, etc. including Taiwan; Japan, North Korea, South Korea).

HOSTS. Pinus koraiensis , Pinus funebris , Pinus densiflora , Pinus pentaphylla , Pinus sp. , Picea jezoensis, Abies sp.

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NOTES. Our study of Reitter’s type of Hylastes imitator type preserved in NHMB has demonstrated its identity with Hylurgops interstitialis : both species are similar in structure of elytral declivity having raised first and third interstriae and thus H. imitator (Reitter, 1900) is considered as a synonym of H. interstitialis , syn. nov.