Pityophthorus Eichhoff, 1864

Amini, Sudabe, Nozari, Jamasb, Martinez, Isabel, Hosseini, Reza & Faccoli, Massimo, 2020, Morphological and molecular identification of the Iranian bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), Zootaxa 4852 (3), pp. 251-284 : 254-255

Pityophthorus Eichhoff

Pronotal lateral margin obliquely costate. Funicle 4- or 5-segmented. Antennal club 4-segmented. Frons with short erect hair-like setae and densely punctate. Declivital sutural interstriae with six denticles. Declivity sulcate from striae 1 to striae 2, interstriae 2 broad and laterally diverging from suture, interstriae 3 costate. 1.6−2.3 mm long…........... P. micrographus (Linnaeus)

Palaearctic distribution: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Russia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia and Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Turkey ( Knížek 2011), Iran ( Beaver et al. 2016).

Iran distribution: West Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011).

Host plants in Iran: Picea abies ( Pfeffer 1995) .