Liparthrum bartschti Mühl, 1891

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) : -

Liparthrum bartschti Mühl, 1891

Material examined. Mazandaran Province, Nowshahr-Ecology Garden N 36º 38' 51", E 51º 30' 64", 30 m a.s.l., breeding in twigs of Populus sp. ( Salicaceae ) Sudabe Amini leg., 4 specimens, September 2014.

This species was previously known only from Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Turkey ( Knížek 2011) and Daghestan ( Russia) ( Petrov, 2005), collected only from mistletoe ( Viscum album ) growing on Populus , but not directly from Populus itself. Our record is the first finding of this genus in Iran.