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Issue: Vol. 4350 No. 2: 17 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.13
Page range: 396–400
Abstract views: 109
PDF downloaded: 3

New records of Iranian bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) and their host plants

Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Chamran street -Karaj-Iran- PO.BOX: 3158777871.
Centre for Bioinformatics and Genome Research, Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S.M. Kirov, St Petersburg, Russia. Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia. St.Petersburg State Unviersity, St.Petersburg, Russia
Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Jíloviště—Strnady, Czechia.
Department of Forestry and Forest Economics College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran.
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy.
Coleoptera bark beetles forests Iran new hosts new records

Abstract

Bark and ambrosia beetles from the subfamily Scolytinae are among the most important pests in forests of Northern Iran. During investigations conducted in 2013–2016 in different parts of northern forests, the species Crypturgus cribrellus Reitter, Liparthrum bartschti Mühl, Scolytus varshalovitchi Michalski, Scolytus sulcifrons Rey, Scolytus triarmatus (Eggers) and Trypophloeus granulatus (Ratzeburg) were recorded for the first time in Iran; Trypophloeus and Liparthrum were new genera for Iran. As new host plants we found Zelkova sp. for Scolytus varshalovitchi, Michalski, Populus sp. for Liparthrum bartschti, Mühl, Alnus sp. and Pterocarya fraxinifolia for Taphrorychus lenkoranus Reitter, Pterocarya fraxinifolia for Ernoporicus caucasicus (Lindemann), Carpinus sp. for Pteleobius vittatus (Fabricius), Parrotia persica for Scolytus intricatus (Ratzeburg), Alnus sp. and Pterocarya fraxinifolia for Hypothenemus eruditus (Westwood).

 

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