44. Pityogenes bidentatus (Herbst, 1783)

Distribution. British Islands, West Europe, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Moldavia, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan, Israel, Asian Turkey, Iran; introduced to Afrotropical and Nearctic Regions (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 Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) without distribution data and by Mirzoian (1977) from North Armenia.

Hosts. Pinus .