Orthotomicus laricis ( 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 : 53

40. Orthotomicus laricis ( Fabricius, 1792)

Distribution. British Islands, West Europe, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, Algeria, Morocco, Asian Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russian Far East, China, Korea, Japan; introduced to Neotropical Region ( 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 Dilijan (Tavush province) and later ( Mirzoian 1977) from North Armenia and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) without distribution data.

Hosts. Pinus .