Corresponding author: Georgi Georgiev ( ggeorgiev.fri@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Ivaylo Markoff © Sevdalin Belilov, Georgi Georgiev, Plamen Mirchev, Margarita Georgieva. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Belilov S, Georgiev G, Mirchev P, Georgieva M (2021) Three species of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) on Pinus peuce in Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria. Silva Balcanica 22(2): 69-72. https://doi.org/10.3897/silvabalcanica.22.e73436 |
In 2020 and 2021, three species of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) were established on Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce) in the region of Vihren hut in Pirin Mts. Branches, damaged by snow were collected and studied in laboratory conditions. As a result, 24 specimens of Ips amitinus were reared in 2020 and 81 specimens of I. amitinus, Crypturgus pusillus and Pityogenes chalcographus in 2021. The most abundant species was I. amitinus with 75.2%, followed by P. chalcographus (21.9%) and C. pusillus (2.9%).