Taphrorychus bicolor ( Herbst, 1793 )

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 : 45

9. Taphrorychus bicolor ( Herbst, 1793)

Distribution. Great Britain, Scandinavia, South and Central Europe to Ukraine, Lithuania and Central European Russia,Asian Turkey, Iran, Korea ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023; Amini et al. 2020); reported by Arnoldi et al. (1955) from Caucasus including Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: reported by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1957) from Ijevan and Kirants (Tavush Province) and Shurnukh (Syunik Province) and by Mirzoian (1954, 1977) as widely distributed in all deciduous forests.

Hosts. Quercus , Fagus orientalis , Carpinus caucasica .