Ips sexdentatus ( Boerner, 1776 )

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 : 52

37. Ips sexdentatus ( Boerner, 1776)

Material. Tavush: Ijevan , forest, 20.09.1950, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. (2 ex.); Dilijan, Visitor Center of “Dilijan” National Park , pine artificial forest, N40.7489° E44.8678°, 1275 m, pheromone traps, 05.05.– 04.07.2023 (86 ex.), 04.07.– 17.08.2023 (2 ex.) and 17.08.– 27.09.2023 (2 ex.), G. Karagyan & T. Grejyan leg.

Distribution. Great Britain, Europe from Spain, France, Portugal to Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Belarus, Moldavia, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, Asian Turkey, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russian Far East, China, Korea, Japan, Oriental Region ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) from Caucasus and by Arnoldi et al. (1955) and Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) also from Transcaucasia. Armenia: reported by Mirzoian (1951) from Lori (Vahagnadzor) and Tavush (Dilijan, Ijevan) Provinces and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) as distributed in all Armenian natural pine forests.

Hosts. Pinus .