Taphrorychus lenkoranus Reitter, 1913

Amini, Sudabe, Nozari, Jamasb, Mandelshtam, Michail Yu., Knížek, Miloš, Etemad, Vahid & Faccoli, Massimo, 2017, New records of Iranian bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) and their host plants, Zootaxa 4350 (2) : -

Taphrorychus lenkoranus Reitter, 1913

Material examined. Guilan Province, Visadar; N 37º 34' 49", E 48º 57' 36", breeding in trunk of Carpinus sp. June 2011; Golestan Province, N 37 º 20' 97", E 55º 40' 98",742, m a.s.l., breeding in trunk of Alnus sp., Sudabe Amini leg, July 2014; Mazandaran province, Roushankooh, N 36º 22' 09", E 53º 68' 73", m a.s.l., breeding in twigs of Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Juglandaceae) , Sudabe Amini leg., 4 specimens (2 males and 2 females). July and August 2016; Golestan Province, road between Azad-Shakhr and Shakhrud, Khoshyeylag village, N 36 º 49' 31", E 55º 20' 31", Jun 2016, D. Kasatkin leg., 20 specimens; Golestan Province Golestan National Park, N 37 º 22' 46", E 55º 51' 54", June 2016. D. Kasatkin leg., 15 specimens; Mazandaran Province, 19 km SW Chalus, Chalus-Karaj road, June. 2015, Kasatkin D. leg.

Alnus sp. and Pterocarya sp. are new hosts recorded for Taphrorychus lenkoranus which was previously known only from Fagus sp., Quercus sp. and Carpinus sp. ( Pfeffer 1995; Amini et al. 2013).

According to Beaver et al. (2016) Taphrorychus bicolor (Herbst, 1793) should not breed in Iran and all previous records must refer to the similar species T. lenkoranus Reitter, 1913 . Also previous studies suggested excluding T. bicolor from the fauna of West Caucasus where it is replaced by T. lenkoranus ( Mandelshtam et al. 2005) , which is known to breed also in Daghestan (Eastern Caucasus) ( Petrov 2005).