[MAIPC] New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven

[Marc Imlay]

 Still, no proper host-specificity test has yet been conducted on the beetle.

 

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Subject: Re: [MAIPC] New Wood Boring Beetle Attacks Tree-of-heaven

 

 

Marc & others,

notice that the insect was first detected in 2011, described by Rick Hoebeke and others in 2016 or so.  I blogged about it in November 2017 - see link.

 

http://nivemnic.us/new-woodborer-detected-importance-of-surveillance-by-catch/ 

 

I really don't understand why Entomological Society is treating it as a headline-worthy matter now.

 

???

 

Faith Campbell

In a message dated 1/3/2020 9:40:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, ialm at erols.com <mailto:ialm at erols.com>  writes: 

 

 

Monday, October 30, 2017

https://bugwood.blogspot.com/

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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