Petrov A.V.1, Kulinich O.A.2 2024. Trophic specialization features of bark beetle Ips hauseri Reitter, 1895 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in coniferous forests of Kazakhstan // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.23. No.5: 283–286 [in English].
1 Laboratory of Forest Zoology, Institute of Forest Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sovetskaya Str. 21, Moskovskaya Oblast, Uspenskoe 143030 Russia. E-mail: hylesinus@list.ru
2 All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Pogranichnaya Str. 32, Moskovskaya Oblast, Bykovo 140150 Russia. E-mail: okulinich@mail.ru
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.23.05.07
ABSTRACT. The biological characteristics of Ips hauseri Reitter, 1895 in the coniferous mountain forests of Kazakhstan were studied during the period of depression of the bark beetle population in the windfall zone of 2011 in the high-mountain Medeu tract. According to our observations, during the stages of development and regress of the mass reproduction cluster in the period from 2012 to 2024, the bark beetle attacked and developed only on Schrenk’s spruce Pícea schrenkiana Fisch. & C.A.Mey., 1842. Scots pine in the Medeu tract and in the parks of Almaty was not populated during this period.
KEY WORDS: Conifers, Schrenk spruce, Pícea schrenkiana, Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, trophic specialization, bark beetle, Kazakhstan.