Pityogenes calcaratus (Eichhoff, 1878)

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 414

Pityogenes calcaratus (Eichhoff, 1878)

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Southern Europe, North Africa, Israel, Syria, Turkey.

Biology. The species breeds in species of Pinus (Pinaceae) . Recorded in Iran from Pinus brutia (Pinaceae) ( Samin et al. 2011). The species usually breeds in branches of small diameter ( Chararas 1962). The gallery system resembles that of P. bidentatus ( Schedl 1966) . Diurnal flight patterns were studied by Mendel et al. (1991). Together with Orthotomicus erosus , its attacks on pine plantations after thinning or damage by fire can result in mass mortality of trees ( Mendel et al. 1991).