Hylesinopsis leprosula (Browne) Beaver, Roger A, 2010

Beaver, Roger A, 2010, Taxonomic notes on the afrotropical genera Hapalogenius Hagedorn, Hylesinopsis Eggers, and Rhopalopselion Hagedorn (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 56, pp. 157-170 : 162

Hylesinopsis leprosula (Browne) comb. n.

Cryphalus leprosulus Browne 1980: 774.

I have examined the holotype (MRAC), and twenty-one paratypes (MRAC, NHML). It is not clear why Browne (1980) assigned this species to the genus Cryphalus Erichson. Such an assignment within the tribe Cryphalini is ruled out by the six–segmented funicle, the elongate eyes, the lack of a visible scutellum, the raised and crenulate basal margin of the elytra, and other characters. The species is here removed from Cryphalus and transferred to Hylesinopsis .