Chaetoptelius vestitus ( Mulsant & Rey, 1861 )

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 : 50

31. Chaetoptelius vestitus ( Mulsant & Rey, 1861)

Material. Lori: Akhtala , 05.06.1949, S. Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg. ; Syunik: env. Meghri , 09– 20.04.1997, K. Aghababian leg.

Distribution. South Europe, Ukraine, South European Russia, Canary Islands, North Africa, Israel, Syria, Asian Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, India (Uttar Pradesh), Oriental region, introduced to Neotropical Region ( Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) from Caucasus and by Arnoldi et al. (1955) also from Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: reported by Vinogradov-Nikitin & Zaitzev (1926) from Ayrum (Lori Province), by Mirzoian (1954, 1977) from Meghri (Syunik Province) and by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) as distributed everywhere in the territories of growing of pistachio.

Hosts. Pistacia .