Taphrorychus ramicola (Reitter, 1894)

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Taphrorychus ramicola (Reitter, 1894)

Distribution in Iran. Golestan ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Bulgaria, South-West Russia, Syria, Turkey.

Taxonomy. This species has sometimes been placed in the genus Saliciphilus Sokanovskiy (Pfeffer 1985, 1994), but that genus is considered to be a synonym of Taphrorychus by Wood (1986) and Knížek (2011).

Biology. The species is recorded from Carpinus , Corylus (Betulaceae) , and Fagus (Fagaceae) ( Schedl 1961; Pfeffer 1995). In Iran, it has been recorded from Corylus avellana (Betulaceae) ( Samin et al. 2011).