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Large elm beetle

Scientific Name
Scolytus scolytus
Scientific Author
(Fabricius, 1775)
Taxonomy
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Scolytini)
Status
Exotic species - absent from Australia
Reliability
High
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Distribution

  • Europe and Northern Asia

Description

Occurs throughout Europe; in U.S.S.R. occurs up to Kazan and the southern Urals; northern limits is the southern boundary of the taiga zone, in the south it occurs in the Crimea and Caucasus; also common in Hungary and northern Iran.

 

Source:

Vladimir Novak, F. Hrozinka & B. Stary (1976). Atlas of insects harmful to forest trees Volume 1. Elesvier Scientific Publishing Company.

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