Anisandrus dispar ( Fabricius, 1792 )

Karagyan, Gayane, Kalashian, Mark, Ghrejyan, Tigran, Mazmanyan, Meri & Petrov, Аlexander, 2024, Annotated Checklist of Armenian Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 5514 (1), pp. 41-65 : 59

68. Anisandrus dispar ( Fabricius, 1792)

Material. Lori: Teghut mine, nr. refuse heap, 41.0705° 44.8378°, 1210 m (soil traps), 19.06– 23.07.2015, G. Karagyan & M. Kalashian leg. (14 ex.); same data, but nr. artef. pond, 41.0907° 44.8117°, 990 m ; Tavush: Gosh , 27.05.1980, M. Kalashian leg. ; Kotayk: Arzakan , 25.07.1973, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Tsaghkadzor , 09.06.1978, M. Mardjanian leg. ; Ararat: “ Khosrov forest ” reserve, 10.06.1972 , collector unknown; Vayots Dzor: Azatek , 04.06.1972, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Syunik: Shgharjik , 22.06.1952, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Meghri , 22.06.1937, M. Ter-Grigorian leg. ; Lichk , 18.05.1984, M. Mardjanian leg.

Distribution. Great Britain, Central and South Europe, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, Asian Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russian Far East, China, North Korea, Japan, Oriental Region; introduced to Nearctic Region ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); as Xyleborus reported by Stark (1952) and Arnoldi et al. (1955) from Caucasus and as Anisandrus by Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) also from Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: as Xyleborus reported by Avetian (1952) from Meghri (Syunik Province), by Mirzoian (1954) from Tavush (Dilijan, Ijevan) and Syunik (Kapan, Meghri) Provinces, and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1957) also from Ijevan and from Tsav and Shgharjik (Syunik Province) and later ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976) as distributed in all forests, light forests and orchards.

Hosts. Quercus , Fagus , Prunus avium, Corylus.