Chaetoptelius vestitus (Mulsant & Rey, 1861)

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 : 410

Chaetoptelius vestitus (Mulsant & Rey, 1861)

Distribution in Iran. Fars, Isfahan, Khorasan, Zanjan ( Modarres Awal 1997), Guilan ( Samin et al. 2011), Kerman ( Modarres Awal 1997; Nejad Ghaderi et al. 2014), Semnan ( Borumand 1998), Iran (no locality cited) ( Knížek 2011).

General distribution. Central and Southern Europe, North Africa and Canary Is., East to Tajikistan and Northwest India.

Biology. The species breeds only in species of Pistacia and Cotinus (Anacardiaceae) ( Russo 1926; Pfeffer 1995). Recorded in Iran from Pistacia vera (Anacardiaceae) , and Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ) ( Modarres Awal 1997). The record from the latter species represents either a casual occurrence, or an incorrect identification. The species is a pest of Pistacia vera (pistachio) causing damage to buds and twigs, fruit fall and decreased yields. A detailed study of the morphology of the adult and immature stages, the biology, and natural enemies in Italy was made by Russo (1926). More recent studies of aspects of the biology and economic importance of the species in other areas include Kadyrov (1989) in Tajikistan, Chebouti-Meziou et al. (2011) in Algeria, and Braham and Jardak (2012) in Tunisia.