Scolytus rugulosus ( Müller, 1818 )

Karagyan, Gayane, Kalashian, Mark, Ghrejyan, Tigran, Mazmanyan, Meri & Petrov, Аlexander, 2024, Annotated Checklist of Armenian Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Zootaxa 5514 (1), pp. 41-65 : 58

65. Scolytus rugulosus ( Müller, 1818)

Material. Armavir: Armavir town, 04.07.1939, collector unknown (6 ex.) ; Yerevan: env. Yerevan, 15.06.1924, A. Schelkovnikov leg.; Charbakh distr. , on cherry tree, 02.06.1950, S. Babayan leg. ; Yerevan city, 17.06.1950, H. Avetian leg. (4 ex.); same data, on plum tree, 10.08.1950; Kanaker [formerly village, currently in the city border], 25.05.1949, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Kotayk: env. Eilar, 10.08.1928, A. Schelkovnikov leg. (6 ex.); ~ 5 km E Gokht, Geghard monastery, 15.06.1949, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. (3 ex.); Jrvezh , 28.05.1952, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg.; same locality, 08.06.1983, M. Kalashian leg. ; Ararat: “Khosrov forest” state reserve, Garni area, under bark of Crataegus sp. , 04.06.1982, M. Kalashian leg.; Taperakan , on peach tree, 24.05.1965, H. Avetian & G. Avagian leg. (12 ex.) ; Syunik: Kapan, 21.07.1951, H. Avetian leg. (2 ex.); Karmrakar , 17.06.1952, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg.; Meghri, on cherry plum tree, 23.07. (5 ex.) and 31.07.1937, M. Ter-Grigorian leg.; same locality, on apple tree, 14.09.1950, H. Avetian leg. (4 ex.)

Distribution. Azores, British Islands, Central and South Europe, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, North Africa, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Asian Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, China, Oriental Region; introduced to Nearctic and Neotropical Regions ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); as S. r: caucasicus Butovitsch, 1929 reported by Arnoldi et al. (1955) from Caucasus and Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: as Eccoptogaster mediterraneus Eggers, 1922 reported by Ter-Grigorian (1941) from Meghri (Syunik Province), Echmiadzin (Armavir Province) and from Yerevan, by Avetian (1952) as S. mediterraneus from the same localities, by Mirzoian (1954) (as S. r. caucasicus ) from Tavush (Dilijan, Ijevan), Gegharkunik (Chambarak) and Syunik (Goris, Kapan, Meghri) Provinces and from Yerevan, and by Avetian (1952) and Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1976 (as S. rugulosus ) distributed everywhere fruit trees grow.

Hosts. Malus , Prunus , Mespilus , Crataegus, Rubus.