Dryocoetes villosus villosus ( Fabricius, 1792 )

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

7. Dryocoetes villosus villosus ( Fabricius, 1792)

Material. Tavush: env. Gosh , 27.05.1980, M. Kalashian leg.; Dilijan, Visitor Center of “Dilijan” National Park , pine artificial forest, N40.7489° E44.8678°, 1275 m, pheromone traps, 05.05.– 04.07. (6 ex.), 04.07.– 17.08.2023, G. Karagyan & T. Ghrejyan leg.; env. Koghb vill., “Zikatar” Environmental Center, N41.1221° E44.9232°, 1310 m, pine artificial forest, pheromone traps, 25.05.– 05.07.2023, G. Karagyan & T. Ghrejyan leg. (10 ex.) .

Distribution. British Islands, Europe from Portugal, Spain, France to Scandinavia, Baltic countries, Balkans, Ukraine, Central and South European Russia, Algeria, Tunisia, Madeira; Asian Turkey, Iran ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) and Arnoldi et al. (1955) from Caucasus without country data. Armenia: reported by Zaitzev (1950) from Armenia without distribution data, by Mirzoian (1954) from Dilijan and Ijevan (Tavush Province) and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1957) from Ijevan as well.

Hosts. Quercus , Fagus orientalis , Carpinus .