Hylastes angustatus, (Herbst, 1793)

Mandelshtam, M. Yu. & Petrov, A. V., 2019, A key to species of the tribe Hylastini LeConte, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Russia and adjacent countries, Russian Entomological Journal 28 (4), pp. 389-399 : 391

1. H. angustatus (Herbst, 1793)

= scandinavicus Lekander, 1965.

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: European part (central and southern parts), Crimea, North Caucasus (Adygeya Republic, Dagestan) [ Petrov, 2005]; European countries of the former USSR ( Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine), Caucasus; Northern, Central and Southern Europe; Asia ( Turkey); South Africa (introduced).

HOSTS. Pinus sylvestris , Pinus nigra pallasiana , Pinus spp. , also on Picea orientalis .

NOTES. H. angustatus is difficult to distinguish from H. opacus : records of H. angustatus from the northern half of European part of Russia should be verified. At least the previous records of H. angustatus from Leningrad Prov. of Russia [ Mandelshtam, Popovichev, 2000] are erroneous and most probably must be attributed to H. opacus [ Mandelshtam, Khairetdinov, 2017].