Orthotomicus proximus (Eichhoff, 1867)

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 : 413

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.5669427
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B5C9A7C-475D-FFDB-C797-E323FDECFAAB
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Orthotomicus proximus (Eichhoff, 1867)
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Orthotomicus proximus (Eichhoff, 1867) View in CoL

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Europe, Algeria, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Turkey, through Russia to northern China, Korea, Japan.

Biology. The species usually breeds in species of Pinus and Picea , occasionally in Abies and Larix (Pinaceae) ( Stark 1952). Recorded in Iran from Cedrus libani (Pinaceae) ( Samin et al. 2011). This is the first record from Cedrus , and the presence of the species in Iran needs confirmation. The biology and gallery system are described by Stark (1952) and Chararas (1962).