Scolytus pygmaeus (Fabricius, 1787)

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 : 421

Scolytus pygmaeus (Fabricius, 1787)

Distribution in Iran. Golestan ( Samin et al. 2011), Guilan (Amini & Hosseini 2012; Amini et al. 2012, 2013, 2014).

General distribution. Europe except the far North, southern Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey.

Biology. The species breeds primarily in species of Ulmus (Ulmaceae) , but is also recorded from species in the families Fagaceae , Oleaceae and Rosaceae ( Stark 1952; Michalski 1973; Aksent’ev 1993). Recorded in Iran from Ulmus minor ( Samin et al. 2011; Amini et al. 2013). Michalski (1973) describes the gallery system. Maksimović and Motal (1981) compare various aspects of its biology with S. scolytus and S. multistriatus . Basset et al. (1992) and Faccoli and Battisti (1997) consider the species to be as effective a carrier of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease as S. multistriatus .