Hylesinus taranio ( Danthoine, 1788 )

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 : 49

27. Hylesinus taranio ( Danthoine, 1788)

Material. Tavush: Syunik: Tsav , 30.07.1952, S. Iablokoff Khnzorian leg. (4 ex.) .

Distribution. Great Britain, Central and South Europe, Scandinavia, Latvia, Moldavia, Ukraine, South European Russia, North Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Asian Turkey, Iran, introduced to Japan and Neotropical Region ( Knížek 2011b, as H. toranio D’Anthoine, 1788 ; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) from Caucasus and Trancaucasia without country data. Armenia: reported as H. oleiperda ( Fabricius, 1792) by Mirzoian (1954) from Syunik Province (Tsav, Shgharjik), by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1961) without distribution data, later by him ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976) from Syunik Province, and by Mirzoian (1977) also from North Armenia.

Hosts. Fraxinus .