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 .