Hylesinus varius ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 49

28. Hylesinus varius ( Fabricius, 1775)

Material. Tavush: Kirants , 17.05.1951, S. Iablokoff Khnzorian leg. ; Yerevan, “ Lovers Park ”, on Fraxinus , 09.11.1952, G. Avagian leg. ; Kotayk: Jrvezh , 02.04.1952, S. Iablokoff Khnzorian leg. ; Syunik: Vachagan , 15.06.1952, S. Iablokoff Khnzorian leg.

Distribution. British Islands, Central and South Europe, Malta, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Ukraine, European Russia, North Africa, Asian Turkey, Iran, China ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) from Caucasus and Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: as H. fraxini ( Panzer, 1799) reported by S. Mirzoian (1954) from Lori (Vanadzor), Tavush (Dilijan, Ijevan), Gegharkunik (Chambarak, Martuni) and Syunik (Goris, Kapan, Meghri) Provinces and from Yerevan and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) and S. Mirzoian (1977) as distributed in all territories where ash occurs.

Hosts. Fraxinus .