Hylastes paralellus, Chapuis 1875

Mandelshtam, M. Yu. & Petrov, A. V., 2019, A key to species of the tribe Hylastini LeConte, 1876 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Russia and adjacent countries, Russian Entomological Journal 28 (4), pp. 389-399 : 394

8. H. paralellus Chapuis 1875

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: East Siberia, Far-East [ Knížek, 2011], Asia ( China, including Northeast provinces: Heilongjiang, Jilin, etc., including Taiwan; Japan, South Korea. HOSTS. Pinus densiflora , Pinus sp. [ Murayama, 1962]. NOTES. This species is unknown to the authors and is probably not occurring in Russia. It was not mentioned in previous keys and revisions of the Far-Eastern bark beetle fauna [ Kurentsov, 1941; Stark, 1952; Krivolutskaya, 1996]. Data about the occurrence of H. parallelus in Russia are given according to Knížek [2011]. Murayama [1962] notes that the species is closely allied to H. ater and very common through Japan, but very rare in the Asiatic continent.