Acanthoscelides pallidipennis (Motschulsky, 1874)

Kuprin, A. V., Kolyada, N. A. & Kasatkin, D. G., 2018, New invasive species Acanthoscelides pallidipennis (Motschulsky, 1874) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in the fauna of the Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 360, pp. 25-28 : 25-27

Acanthoscelides pallidipennis (Motschulsky, 1874)

Figs 1–3

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Primorskii krai, Chernigovskii district, vicinities of

Vadimovka vill., on Amorpha fruticosa L., IX 2017, 30 specimens (N.A. Kolyada).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Primorskii krai (new record), European part of Russia: Ros-

tovskaya oblast, Krasnodarskii krai, Volgogradskaya oblast, Caucasus: North Osetiaya,

Dagestan (Kasatkin, 2001; Prisniy et al., 2013). – Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Czech

Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia,

fruticosa (4, 5). 1 – habitus, dorsal view; 2 – same, lateral view; 3 – apex of abdomen, posterior view; 4 – host plant; 2 – beans destroyed by beetles.

Macedonia, Ukraine (Anton, 2010; Beenen & Roques, 2010; Martynov & Nikulina, 2016),

Kazakhstan (Temreshev & Valieva, 2016), China: Jiangxi, Xinjiang; North Korea and Japan

(Wan, 1989; Li et al., 2014; Tuda et al., 2001), USA (Anton, 2010).

NOTES. The original range of the species is North America (central USA) from where it has spread to different countries. Currently, this seed beetle is found throughout Europe,

Central Asia, southern provinces of China, North Korea, and Japan; in Russia it has been detected in the European part and Caucasus. The species distribution is primarily associated with its main host plant, indigo bush ( Amorpha fruticosa L.) that is used in landscaping. This plant has a tendency to active expansion of its range; in the southern regions, it is considered to be potentially invasive (Vinogradova et al., 2010). In the south of the Russian Far East, A.

fruticosa has been observed since the beginning of the 20th century; it is currently used in landscaping of 26 settlements in Primorskii krai and is a potentially invasive species

(Kolyada & Kolyada, 2018). There is evidence that when invading a new territory, the beetle damages seeds of many other species of the legume family ( Fabaceae ) (Anton, 2010;

Roques, et al., 2010; You Li et al., 2014; Temreshev & Valieva, 2016).

Figures

Figs. 1–5. The beetle Acanthoscelides pallidipennis (1–3) and its main host plant Amorpha