New species and new records of exotic Scolytinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Europe

Matteo Marchioro; Massimo Faccoli; Marialuisa Dal Cortivo; Manuela Branco; Alain Roques; André Garcia; Enrico Ruzzier

doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e93995

New species and new records of exotic Scolytinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Europe

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Oct 21:10:e93995. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e93995. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Matteo Marchioro¹, Massimo Faccoli¹, Marialuisa Dal Cortivo², Manuela Branco³, Alain Roques⁴, André Garcia³, Enrico Ruzzier¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE), Legnaro (Padova), Italy Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment (DAFNAE) Legnaro (Padova) Italy.
² Raggruppamento Carabinieri Biodiversità, Reparto Carabinieri Biodiversità Belluno, Belluno, Italy Raggruppamento Carabinieri Biodiversità, Reparto Carabinieri Biodiversità Belluno Belluno Italy.
³ Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon Lisboa Portugal.
⁴ INRA, UR633 Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France INRA, UR633 Zoologie Forestière Orléans France.

Abstract

Background: Bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) are amongst the most important wood-boring insects introduced to Europe. During field investigations conducted between 2019 and 2021 in different countries and regions of Europe, many exotic species have been recorded providing new and relevant data.

New information: Dryoxylononoharaense (Murayama, 1933) is recorded in Europe for the first time. Xyleborinusattenuatus (Blandford, 1894) is a species new to Italy, while Xylosandrusgermanus (Blandford, 1894), Hypothenemuseruditus (Westwood, 1836) and Amasa sp. near A.truncata are new country records for Portugal. Cnestusmutilatus (Blandford, 1894), Phloeotribusliminaris (Harris, 1852) were collected in Italy and Amasa sp. near A.truncata was collected in France after the first discovery, confirming their establishment and their dispersal into new areas.

Keywords: Coleoptera; bark and ambrosia beetles; biological invasions; exotic species.

Matteo Marchioro, Massimo Faccoli, Marialuisa Dal Cortivo, Manuela Branco, Alain Roques, André Garcia, Enrico Ruzzier.

Grants and funding

The research has been funded by DOR (DAFNAE University of Padova), HOMED project (funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 771271), and the "Entrusting support tasks in the area of Plant health – Commodity risk assessment for High Risk Plants" EFSA-DAFNAE University of Padova research agreement. The monitoring activity carried out by M. Dal Cortivo (Reparto Carabinieri Biodiversità Belluno) was founded by Raggrappamento Carabinieri Biodiversità in Rome (Italy). M. Branco and A. Garcia also receive funding by the Forest Research Centre, a research unit funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), Portugal (UIDB/00239/2020).