Taphrorychus villifrons (Dufour, 1843)

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 : 406

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:00F1BDB5-AB25-47A0-B789-2E05D2E683DE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5669369

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B5C9A7C-4754-FFD1-C797-E1F6FEB6FECE

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Plazi

scientific name

Taphrorychus villifrons (Dufour, 1843)
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Distribution in Iran. Guilan, Tehran ( Borumand 1998), northern provinces ( Modarres Awal 1997 as Taphrorynchus [sic] villifrons ), Iran (no locality cited) ( Knížek 2011).

General distribution. Europe, North Africa, Turkey.

Biology. The species breeds primarily in trees of the families Fagaceae ( Fagus , Quercus ) and Betulaceae (Carpinus) , but may also attack trees of other families ( Stark 1952). Recorded in Iran from Quercus sp. ( Fagaceae ), and Cerasus avium (Rosaceae) ( Modarres Awal 1997). Like other species of Taphrorychus , it is polygamous, with several maternal galleries radiating from a central chamber in the phloem ( Balachowsky 1949). Büssler and Immler (2007) suggest that the species is extending its distribution in Germany and becoming more abundant as a result of climatic warming.

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