Scolytus amygdali Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 417-418

Scolytus amygdali Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Distribution in Iran. Alborz, Tehran ( Magowski et al. 2007), Mazandaran ( Samin et al. 2011), East Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Kermanshah, central provinces ( Modarres Awal 1997).

General distribution. Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Pakistan.

Biology. This species breeds in trees of the family Rosaceae (e.g. Amygdalus , Mespilus , Prunus ). It has been recorded from Prunus amygdalus , P. armeniaca , Persica vulgaris (Rosaceae) , and Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae) in Iran ( Modarres Awal 1997). Its biology has been described by Russo (1931) and Zeiri et al. (2011, 2015). It is a pest of rosaceous fruit trees in Israel ( Mendel et al. 1997).

Comments. Cerocephala cornigera Westwood, 1832 ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) is a parasitoid of S. amygdali in Iran ( Abd-Rabou et al. 2005).