Ambrosiophilus atratus (Eichhoff, 1875)

Ruzzier, Enrico, Morin, Lucio, Zugno, Matteo, Tapparo, Andrea, Bani, Luciano & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2023, New records of non-native Coleoptera in Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 111487-111487 : 111487

Ambrosiophilus atratus (Eichhoff, 1875)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 2085F599-D9B3-55AC-AC25-98DAADC6DE68; Taxon: scientificName: Ambrosiophilus atratus (Eichhoff 1875); family: Curculionidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardia; locality: Pioltello ; decimalLatitude: 45.4698309832381; decimalLongitude: 9.32013889739963; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2021-04-0

Distribution

Ambrosiophilus atratus is an ambrosia beetle native to the Eastern Palearctic now established in France, Italy and Slovenia ( Faccoli 2008, Dodelin 2019, Hauptman et al. 2019). The present finding is the first record of the species in Lombardy.

Notes

Ambrosiophilus atratus is a highly polyphagous species, capable of developing in both hardwoods and conifers ( Ruzzier et al. 2023). Recent observations, coupled with the lack of damage attributable to the species, however, seem to suggest that A. atratus might have a negligible phytosanitary value, preferring severely debilitated or already dead plants as reproductive substrate ( Ranger et al. 2010, Reed et al. 2015, Ruzzier et al. 2022a).