Ips longifolia (Stebbing)

Beaver, Roger A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2022, The bark and ambrosia beetles of Bhutan (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae): a synopsis with three new species of Scolytinae, Zootaxa 5174 (1), pp. 1-24 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5174.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F80F144B-D1E8-4587-A146-0BACFFE18FB6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6972980
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/217A020B-6E5C-3F05-FF6C-49C2FBD0C906
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ips longifolia (Stebbing)
status

Treatment

Ips longifolia (Stebbing) View in CoL

Tomicus longifolia Stebbing, 1909: 26 View in CoL .

Ips longifolia (Stebbing) View in CoL : Hagedorn 1910: 56.

Recorded from Bhutan by Schmutzenhofer (1988a) and Cognato & Sperling (2000).

Distribution. Bhutan, India ( Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh), Pakistan.

Biology. The species primarily attacks Pinus roxburghii (Pinaceae) in the subtropical conifer forest belt of the Himalayas at elevations between 500 and 2000 m ( Kirisits et al. 2002). Other conifers may also be attacked, but confusion with closely-related species of Ips makes most early host records unreliable. It is considered to be a secondary species, attacking severely stressed or dying trees ( Kirisits et al. 2002).