Hypothenemus seriatus (Eichhoff, 1872: 133)

Fig. 9 I–J

Material examined. Argentina, Tucumán, Dpto. Famaillá, Sauce Huacho, 26º 55’ 79.9” S, 65º 28’ 61.0” W, 645 m, 15.XII.2017, cols. Córdoba S. and Mendoza E. (1, IFML); Dpto Famaillá, Sauce Hacho, Tucumán, 26º 39’ 29.1” S, 65º 13’ 17” W, 10.IX.2018, cols. S. Córdoba and E . Mendoza (41, IFML); Dpto. Tafí del Valle, 03–18.XII.2021, cols. Córdoba S. and Mendoza E. (1, IFML) .

Distribution. Argentina: Tucumán (Dptos. Famaillá and Tafí del Valle); South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela; Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama; Caribbean: Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, U.S. Virgin Islands), Puerto Rico, República Dominicana and the Turks and Caicos; North America: Mexico and United States; Africa: Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire; Asia: Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka; Eurasia: Turkey; Oceania: Australia, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia and Hawaii (United States) (Wood 2007; Bright 2019; Córdoba et al. 2021).

Comment. Bright (2019) treated this species as a synonym of H. obscurus (F.).