Scolytus mali ( Bechstein, 1805 )

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 : 57

60. Scolytus mali ( Bechstein, 1805)

Material. Lori: Sanain, 17.08.1937, Expedition of Institute of Zoology (4 ex.); Kotayk: Tsaghkadzor , 17.06.1907, D. Maljushenco (7 ex.); ~ 5 km E Gokht, Geghard monastery, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. 19.06.1949 (2 ex.) ; Yerevan, 24.05.1929, A. Naroyan leg. ; Syunik: Kapan , 21.07.1951, H. Avetian leg. (9 ex.) ; Tsav, 12.09.1952, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg.; Meghri , 01.04.1937 (on fig tree), 08.06.1937 (on apple tree), 01.07.1937 (on peach tree) and 04.06.1944, M. Ter-Grigorian leg. ; same locality, 14.09.1950, H. Avetian leg. (5 ex.) .

Distribution. British Islands, Europe from Portugal and Spain to Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia,”Caucasus”, North Africa, Iran, Asian Turkey, Siberia, Russian Far East, China; introduced to Nearctic Region ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) from Caucasus, by Arnoldi et al. (1955) also from Transcaucasia without country data and by Petrov (2013) from all Transcaucasian countries. Armenia: reported by Avetian (1952), Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) and Mirzoian (1977) as widely distributed in all fruit growing areas of the country.

Hosts. Malus , Prunus , Mespilus, Pyrus , Crataegus .