Taxonomic notes on the afrotropical genera Hapalogenius Hagedorn, Hylesinopsis Eggers, and Rhopalopselion Hagedorn (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) Author Beaver, Roger A text ZooKeys 2010 56 157 170 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.56.523 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.56.523 1313-2970-56-157 Phrixosoma nigra (Eggers) Bothryperus niger Eggers 1933: 21 Phrixosoma nigra (Eggers): Wood and Bright 1992: 190 Hapalogenius niger Schedl 1952: 7 , syn. n. Metahylesinus niger (Schedl): Schedl 1960: 79 I have examined the holotype of Phrixosoma nigra (NHML), and the two syntypes of Hapalogenius niger and a further specimen standing under this name in the Schedl collection (NMW). Both species were described from Uganda, from the same host species ( Harungana madagascariensis ( Clusiaceae )), and are clearly synonymous. Schedl (1952) appears not to have noticed that the eyes of his species are bipartite, and that the antennal club is asymmetrical with a partly septate first segment - characteristics of Phrixosoma and not of Hapalogenius . Schedl (1963a) briefly describes the biology of the species, and illustrates the gallery system (as Bothryperus niger ).