Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky 1866) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 42

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky 1866) new to Canada

Note.

This east-Asian species is known from throughout the eastern USA ( Rabaglia et al. 2006), including nearby Ohio ( Lightle et al. 2007) and Michigan ( Cognato et al. 2009), from as far north as 45.350°N. This species breeds in many broadleaved woody plants and is a pest in the USA in apparently healthy nursery material and fruit trees. ( Kovach and Gorsuch 1985, Oliver and Mannion 2001)

Specimen data.

Ontario: Elgin Co., 42.826°N, 81.288°W, 11-25.vi., 12-26.vii., 10-24.viii., 18.ix.-2.x.2012, ex. funnel trap, CFIA (27, CNCI).