Carphoborus minimus Fabricius 1798

Carphoborus minimus (Fabricius, 1798) Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Samin et al. 2011). General distribution. Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Israel, Turkey. Biology. Recorded in Iran from Cedrus libani (Samin et al. 2011). This species usually attacks Pinus spp. (Pfeffer 1995), but has been recorded from Cedrus (Schedl 1959 a).
Published as part of Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4098 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258895
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