Data from: Resolution of a global mango and fig pest identity crisis

Hypocryphalus Hopkins, 1915 and Cryphalus Erichson, 1836 (Curculionidae:
Scolytinae: Cryphalini) are significant pests of fig, mango, and other
economically important fruit trees, yet have received little attention
from systematists. An integrated approach using molecular and
morphological evidence resolved the identities of the species feeding on
mango and fig. The following taxonomic changes are proposed: Hypocryphalus
mangiferae (Stebbing, 1914), stat. rev.; Hypocryphalus dilutus (Eichhoff,
1878a), stat. rev. (=Cryphalus dilutusEichhoff, 1878b, syn. n.);
Hypocryphalus discretus (Eichhoff, 1878a), stat. rev. (=Cryphalus
discretusEichhoff, 1878b, syn. n.; Cryphalus scabricollisEichhoff, 1878b,
syn. n.; Cryphalus brevisetosus Schedl, 1943, syn. n.). We identified
widespread misidentification of specimens of Hypocryphalus from mango. The
pest of mango trees in Oman, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Mexico, and
putatively the vector of the pathogen responsible for mango wilt, is H.
dilutus, a resurrected species. The pest of figs in the Mediterranean is
also H. dilutus, but a distinct genetic lineage. The globally distributed
but seemingly harmless mango bark beetle is H. mangiferae: a genetically
complex species in its region of origin, with a single haplotype on mango
trees outside the native range. We provide DNA sequences and describe
novel morphological characters for identification of these species.