Pityokteines Fuchs, 1911

Amini, Sudabe, Nozari, Jamasb, Martinez, Isabel, Hosseini, Reza & Faccoli, Massimo, 2020, Morphological and molecular identification of the Iranian bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4852 (3), pp. 251-284 : 268-269

Pityokteines Fuchs

Only Pityokteines curvidens is reported in Iran.

1) Declivity with a sutural tooth, an uncinated tooth and a conical tooth. Frons with few, short and disperse hairs. Small sutural teeth recurved vertically, uncinated tooth long and thin. 2.5−3.5 mm long….................. P. curvidens (Germar) male

- Declivity with five pairs of teeth. Frons with long and dense hairs. Anterior margin of the pronotum with short hairs, not longer than the frons hairs. Frons with a small median tubercle. 2.5−3.5 mm long…....................... P. curvidens female

Palaearctic distribution: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Japan, Turkey ( Knížek 2011), Iran ( Samin et al. 2011).

Iran distribution: East Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011).

Host plants in Iran: Abies bornmuelleriana ( Pfeffer 1995) .