44. Pityogenes bidentatus (Herbst, 1783) Distribution. British Islands, West Europe, Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Moldavia, Belarus, Ukraine, European Russia, “Caucasus”, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Russian Far East, Japan, Israel, Asian Turkey, Iran; introduced to Afrotropical and Nearctic Regions (Knížek 2011b; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017, 2023); reported by Stark (1952) from Caucasus and by Arnoldi et al. (1955) and Nikitsky & Izhevsky (2005) also from Transcaucasia without country data. Armenia: reported by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) without distribution data and by Mirzoian (1977) from North Armenia. Hosts. Pinus.

Published as part of Karagyan, Gayane, Kalashian, Mark, Ghrejyan, Tigran, Mazmanyan, Meri & Petrov, Аlexander, 2024, Annotated Checklist of Armenian Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), pp. 41-65 in Zootaxa 5514 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13849388