Scolytus confusus Eggers, 1922

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 : 425

Scolytus confusus Eggers, 1922

This species was recorded in Iran from Guilan, Mazandaran, central, northern, southern and western provinces by Modarres Awal (1997) from unspecified forest trees and ‘ Rosaceae fruit trees’. The species is considered to be a synonym of Scolytus japonicus Chapuis, 1875 by Wood and Bright (1992), and Knížek (2011). It is recorded only from North and Northeast China, Korea, Mongolia, and Far East Russia ( Wood & Bright 1992). The very wide geographical separation of these areas from Iran, and the difficulty of identifying some species of Scolytus , suggest that the species may have been misidentified.