Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)

Beaver, Roger A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2022, The bark and ambrosia beetles of Bhutan (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae): a synopsis with three new species of Scolytinae, Zootaxa 5174 (1), pp. 1-24 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F80F144B-D1E8-4587-A146-0BACFFE18FB6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6973022

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/217A020B-6E5A-3F03-FF6C-4853FD89C892

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Plazi

scientific name

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)
status

 

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) View in CoL

Phloeotrogus crassiusculus Motschulsky, 1866: 403 View in CoL .

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) View in CoL : Wood 1977: 68.

Xyleborus semiopacus Eichhoff, 1878: 334 View in CoL . Synonymy: Wood 1969: 119.

This species was recorded from Bhutan by Schedl (1975 as Xyleborus semiopacus Eichhoff View in CoL ).

Distribution. The species is native to and widespread through the Oriental region, extending North to Japan and Korea, and East to New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa; presumably originally imported to tropical Africa, but now widespread in the Afrotropical region; imported to and established in southern Europe, Australia and the Americas.

Biology. The species is strongly polyphagous, and numerous host trees are listed by Dole & Cognato (2010). The biology and gallery system have been described by Browne (1961), Schedl (1963) (both as Xyleborus semiopacus ), and Ranger et al. (2016) amongst others. This is a species of economic importance because it can attack and breed in healthy shoots and twigs, although it more usually attacks physiologically stressed plants ( Ranger et al. 2016). This can facilitate the introduction of pathogenic fungi (Mayers et al. 2016). It has become a major pest species in the southern USA, especially in fruit tree nurseries. Management strategies are discussed by Ranger et al. (2016, 2021), Gugliuzzo et al. (2021), and others.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

SubFamily

Scolytinae

Tribe

Xyleborini

Genus

Xylosandrus

Loc

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)

Beaver, Roger A. & Smith, Sarah M. 2022
2022
Loc

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)

Wood, S. L. 1977: 68
1977
Loc

Xyleborus semiopacus

Wood, S. L. 1969: 119
1969
Loc

Phloeotrogus crassiusculus

Motschulsky, V. 1866: 403
1866
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