Pityophthorus micrographus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 403-404

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.5669341

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B5C9A7C-4753-FFD4-C797-E092FE6BFE93

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Plazi

scientific name

Pityophthorus micrographus (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Pityophthorus micrographus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Distribution in Iran. West Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. North and Central Europe, extending East to Turkey, Western Siberia and Kazakhstan. Biology. This species breeds in the twigs and small branches of conifers in the family Pinaceae ( Abies , Larix , Picea , Pinus ). Pfeffer (1976) considers it a boreal species with a distribution coincident with that of its main host, Picea obovata . The biology of the genus is summarised by Smith and Hulcr (2015), and of the species by Stark (1952) and Pfeffer (1976).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Scolytinae

Tribe

Corthylini

Genus

Pityophthorus

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