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Hylastes attenuatus Erichson 1836

Description

Hylastes attenuatus Erichson, 1836

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

General distribution. Throughout the Palaearctic region from Europe and North Africa to China, Korea, Japan.

Biology. This species attacks only Pinus (Pinaceae) (Balachowsky 1949; Chararas 1962). In Iran it is recorded from Pinus brutia (Samin et al. 2011). Chararas (1962) and Fernandez (1997) give further details of the biology and gallery system.

Notes

Published as part of Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4098 (3) on page 408, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258895

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Hylastes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Erichson
Species
attenuatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hylastes attenuatus Erichson, 1836 sec. Beaver, Ghahari & Sanguansub, 2016

References

  • Samin, N., Sakenin, H. & Rastegar, J. (2011) A study of the species composition of Scolytidae (Coleoptera) of north and northwestern Iran. Amurian Zoological Journal, 3, 265 - 267.
  • Balachowsky, A. (1949) Colopteres Scolytides. Faune de France, 50, 1 - 320.
  • Chararas, C. (1962) Etude biologique des scolytides des coniferes. Encyclopedie Entomologique, Series A, 38. Lechevalier, Paris, 556 pp.
  • Fernandez, M. M. (1997) Los Hylesininae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) parasitos de los pinos en la provincia de Leon. Boletin de la Asociacion Espanola de Entomologia, 21, 195 - 209.