Hypothenemus eruditus Westwood, 1836: 34

Fig. 9 E–F

Material examined. Argentina, Tucumán, Dpto. Famaillá, Sauce Huacho, 26º 55’ 79.9” S, 65º 28’ 61.0” W, 645 m, 02XI.2017, cols. Córdoba S. and Mendoza E. (10, IFML); Dpto. Tafí Viejo, El Cadillal, 26º 39’ 29.1” S, 65º 13’ 17” W, 21.V.2018, cols. S. Córdoba and E. Mendoza (4, IFML) ; Dpto. Yerba Buena, Horco Molle, Jardín Botánico (REHM), 19.XII.2018, cols. S. Córdoba and E. Mendoza (24, IFML); San Miguel de Tucumán, Jardín Botánico de la Fundación Miguel Lillo, 23.III.2017, cols. S. Córdoba and F. Sánchez (7, IFML) ; Dpto. Leales, Villa de Leales, 27.02 – 13.III.2023, cols. E. Mendoza and S. Córdoba (18, IFML) .

Distribution. Argentina: Tucumán (Dptos. Famaillá, Tafí Viejo, Yerba Buena, Leales and San Miguel de Tucumán), Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Misiones and Santiago del Estero; South America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela; Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama; Caribbean: Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles (Antigua,, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts-Nevis, U.S. Virgin Islands), Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, and; North America: Canada, Mexico and United States; Africa: Algeria, Angola, Azores (Portugal), Cameroon, Canary Islands (Spain), Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zaire; Asia: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands (France), Myanmar, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam; Eurasia: Azerbaijan, England, France, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Japan and Spain; Oceania: Australia, Cook Islands (New Zealand), Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, New Caledonia (France) and Hawaii (United States) (Wood & Bright 1992; Córdoba & Atkinson 2018; Bright 2019; Córdoba et al. 2021).