Phloeosinus cedri Brisout

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 : 416

Phloeosinus cedri Brisout de Barneville, 1883

Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Syria, Turkey.

Biology. The species breeds in Cedrus (Pinaceae) . It is recorded in Iran from Cedrus libani ( Samin et al. 2011) . The biology of the species is briefly described by Benhalima et al. (1999). It sometimes attacks healthy young twigs ( Balachowsky 1969).