Orthotomicus suturalis ( Gyllenhal, 1827 )

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 : 53

43. Orthotomicus suturalis ( Gyllenhal, 1827)

Material. Lori: Gyulagarak , 18.07.1954, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Vahagnadzor , 02.06.1949, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Vanadzor , tree nursery, 18.07.1950, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. (2 ex.) .

Distribution. Great Britain, West Europe to Scandinavian and Baltic cointries, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, European Russia, Asian Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Siberia, Russian Far East, Korea, Japan; introduced to Iceland ( 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 Mirzoian (1951) from Lori (Vanadzor) amd Tavush (Dilijan, Ijevan) Provinces, later by him ( Mirzoian, 1977) from North Armenia, Yerevan and Hrazdan (Kotayk Province) and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1961, 1976) without distribution data.

Hosts. Pinus .