Scolytus scolytus ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 58-59

66. Scolytus scolytus ( Fabricius, 1775)

Material. Kotayk: Jrvezh , 04.07.1951, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Yerevan: Botanical Garden , 28.08.1963, G. Harutyunian leg. (3 ex.) ; Syunik: Shurnukh , 10– 14.06.1950, Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. (5 ex.) ; Meghri 17.08.1936, M. Ter-Grigorian leg.

Distribution. British Islands, South and Central Europe, Sweden, Finland, Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia, Asian Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Siberia ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) from Caucasus and by Arnoldi et al. (1955) and Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) also from Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: reported by Avetian (1952) from Aragats Mt. (as S. fuchsi Reitter, 1913 referring to species’ description), by Mirzoian (1954) from Lori (Vanadzor), Tavush (Dilijan) and Syunik (Kapan, Meghri) Provinces, by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1961) without distribution data and later ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976) as widely distributed.

Hosts. Ulmaceae .

Note. Synonym of S. scolytus , S. fuchsi Reitter, 1913 is described from “Russisch-armenishes Gebirge, am Alagoes” (currently Aragats Mt.) ( Reitter, 1913), but Armenia is not listed in the distribution list in the Catalogues.