Kissophagus Chapuis

Amini, Sudabe, Nozari, Jamasb, Martinez, Isabel, Hosseini, Reza & Faccoli, Massimo, 2020, Morphological and molecular identification of the Iranian bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4852 (3), pp. 251-284 : 263

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA0090B4-7FB5-4622-AA10-6A280478ACCC
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4519655
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Kissophagus Chapuis
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Only one Kissophagus species is known in Iran ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 ).

Kissophagus vicinus (Comolli) (= K. hederae (Schmitt)) : Hairs in posterior part of pronotum radiated. Pronotum longer than wide. Frons with median line slightly raised. Body 2.0− 2.4 mm long.

Palaearctic distribution: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Algeria, Turkey ( Knížek 2011), Iran ( Beaver et al. 2016).

Iran distribution: East Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011). Shafarood-Guilan province ( Amini et al. 2017)

Host plants in Iran: Hedera helix (Mohajer 2006) .