[MAIPC] Fwd: Another wood-boring beetle

Jil Swearingen jilswearingen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 12:59:13 PDT 2017


Hi,

Looks like we might have another friend in a natural enemy against one of
our priority invasive plants already in the mid-Atlantic! Let's hope it is
specific to tree of heaven.

Thank you,

Jil

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Jil Swearingen
Invasive Species Consultant
*In the Weeds*



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cleary, Ruark <Ruark.Cleary at myfwc.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 11:15 AM
Subject: Another wood-boring beetle
To: NECIS at lists.nationalwildlife.org


A “specialist” on tree-of-heaven, but I could not find information on
whether it is host-specific.


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*New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven*
<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Bugwood/~3/AOvAB-iMl-I/new-wood-boring-beetle-attacks-tree-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>

Posted: 30 Oct 2017 06:17 AM PDT
First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-
Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera:
Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven
(Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae) Abstract.—The East Asian buprestid
Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer is reported for the first time in the
Western Hemisphere. Specimens of this species taken from emerald ash borer
(A. planipennis Fairmaire) monitoring traps in New Jersey in 2015–2016
suggest establishment of this metallic wood-boring beetle in the
northeastern United States. The earliest known record of A. smaragdifrons
in the U.S. is based on a verifiable image found on BugGuide, from a
specimen collected in Hudson County, New Jersey in June 2011. Diagnostic
information and high-resolution images of the of this adventive buprestid
from other North American Agrilus. A summary of information about the host
plant (Ailanthus altissima), native distribution, and biology are given,
and all known North American records are listed and mapped.

Authors: E. RICHARD HOEBEKE, EDUARD JENDEK, JAMES E. ZABLOTNY, RYAN RIEDER,
ROSA YOO, VASILY V. GREBENNIKOV, AND LILY REN
Taken from *www.BioOne.org* <http://www.BioOne.org>
Published by: Entomological Society of Washington
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