An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran
Author
Beaver, Roger A.
Author
Ghahari, Hassan
Author
Sanguansub, Sunisa
text
Zootaxa
2016
4098
3
401
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journal article
48589
10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1
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Scolytus confusus
Eggers, 1922
This species was recorded in
Iran
from Guilan, Mazandaran, central, northern, southern and western provinces by
Modarres Awal (1997)
from unspecified forest trees and ‘
Rosaceae
fruit trees’. The species is considered to be a synonym of
Scolytus japonicus
Chapuis, 1875
by
Wood and Bright (1992)
, and
Knížek (2011)
. It is recorded only from North and Northeast
China
,
Korea
,
Mongolia
, and Far East
Russia
(
Wood & Bright 1992
). The very wide geographical separation of these areas from
Iran
, and the difficulty of identifying some species of
Scolytus
, suggest that the species may have been misidentified.