Phloeotribus rhododactylus (Marsham, 1802)

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669460
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scientific name	Phloeotribus rhododactylus (Marsham, 1802)
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Phloeotribus rhododactylus (Marsham, 1802) View in CoL

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

General distribution. Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey.

Biology. The species usually breeds in legumes in the tribe Genisteae (e.g. Cytisus , Genista , Sarothamnus , Ulex ) ( Pfeffer 1972; Wood & Bright 1992), but has also been recorded from Ficus carica by Selmi (1987). Recorded in Iran from Ficus carica (Moraceae) ( Samin et al. 2011). Waloff (1968) reviews the biology and population dynamics of the species on Scotch broom ( Cytisus scoparius ).