Scolytus ensifer (Eichhoff, 1881)

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 418

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:00F1BDB5-AB25-47A0-B789-2E05D2E683DE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669476

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B5C9A7C-4740-FFC6-C797-E3E8FD2DF9FE

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Plazi

scientific name

Scolytus ensifer (Eichhoff, 1881)
status

 

Scolytus ensifer (Eichhoff, 1881) View in CoL

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Amini et al. 2012, 2014; Amini & Hosseini 2012; Amini et al. 2013), Markazi ( Borumand 1998), northern provinces ( Modarres Awal 1997), Iran (no locality cited) ( Knížek 2011). General distribution. Central and southern Europe, southern Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey.

Biology. It breeds in species of Ulmus , Zelkova (Ulmaceae) and sometimes in Prunus (Rosaceae) ( Michalski 1973). Recorded from Ulmus sp. ( Ulmaceae ) ( Modarres Awal 1997), and Ulmus minor ( Amini et al. 2013) in Iran. Michalski (1973) describes the gallery system, and notes that it is the only polygamous species of Scolytus in the Palaearctic. The others are monogamous or bigamous.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Scolytinae

Tribe

Scolytini

Genus

Scolytus

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