Scolytus scolytus (Fabricius, 1775)

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 422

Scolytus scolytus (Fabricius, 1775)

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan, Caspian Sea area, central provinces, Tehran ( Modarres Awal 1997), Iran (no locality cited) ( Knížek 2011).

General distribution. Europe except the far North, East to Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.

Biology. The species breeds primarily in Ulmus (Ulmaceae) , but has been recorded in species of Betulaceae , Fagaceae , Juglandaceae , Oleaceae and Rosaceae ( Michalski 1973) . Recorded in Iran from Crataegus sp. ( Rosaceae ), Elaeagnus angustifolia (Elaeagnaceae) , Fraxinus excelsior (Oleaceae) , Juglans regia (Juglandaceae) , Populus sp., Salix sp. ( Salicaceae ), Ulmus pumila (Ulmaceae) ( Modarres Awal 1997). The biology, ecology and population dynamics have been studied by Beaver (1966, 1967a, b), Schröder (1984), Anderbrant and Schlyter (1987), Santini and Faccoli (2015), and others. It is the most important vector of Dutch elm disease in much of Europe ( Webber & Brasier 1984; Webber & Gibbs 1989; Webber 1990; Santini & Faccoli 2015).