Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford, 1894)

Marchioro, Matteo, Faccoli, Massimo, Dal Cortivo, Marialuisa, Branco, Manuela, Roques, Alain, Garcia, Andre & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2022, New species and new records of exotic Scolytinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Europe, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 93995-93995 : 93995

Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford, 1894)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Dal Cortivo; M. Bordin; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 57D5D02E-08E1-5BB1-A108-1AEC3E140929; Taxon: scientificName: Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford, 1894); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; county: Belluno ; municipality: Sovramonte ; locality: Tavernazzo - R. N. Vette Feltrine ; decimalLatitude: 46.096750; decimalLongitude: 11.781240; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Marialuisa Dal Cortivo ; Event : eventDate: 2021-06-18; Record Level: collectionID: RCBC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: M. Dal Cortivo; M. Bordin; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 91799033-4640-5669-8FAC-5D5EB1EE2ABA; Taxon: scientificName: Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford, 1894); Location : continent: Europe ; country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; county: Belluno ; municipality: Cesiomaggiore ; locality: R.N. Piani Eterni, Erera , Val Falcina : Zoccare Alto ; decimalLatitude: 46.124800; decimalLongitude: 11.911430; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Marialuisa Dal Cortivo ; Event : eventDate: 2021-06-18; Record Level: collectionID: RCBC

Distribution

A species native of the Eastern Palearctic (China, Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East), Taiwan), introduced and established in most of Europe and North America ( Rassati et al. 2016, Kvamme et al. 2020). The data provided here represent the first record of the species in Italy (Fig. 7 ).

Notes

This species was collected using flying intercept window traps baited with 75% ethanol in a mountain beech forest damaged by a wind storm in 2018.

Hosts

Xyleborinus attenuatus is polyphagous on broadleaves and it was recorded on Betulaceae (10 species), Fagaceae (8 species), Rosaceae (5 species) and Salicaceae (4 species) ( Wood and Bright 1992, Bright and Skidmore 1997, Popa et al. 2014). Several recorded host plants are present also in Europe, for example, Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn ( Betulaceae ) ( Bright and Skidmore 1997), Betula pendula Roth ( Betulaceae ) ( Skrylnik et al. 2019), Fagus sylvatica L. ( Fagaceae ) ( Sanchez et al. 2020), Prunus avium (L.) L. ( Rosaceae ) ( Kvamme et al. 2020), Quercus robur L. ( Fagaceae ) ( Bright and Skidmore 1997), Sorbus aucuparia L. ( Rosaceae ) ( Kvamme et al. 2020) and Fraxinus excelsior L. ( Oleaceae ) ( Nikulina et al. 2007).

Figures

Figure 7. Xyleborinus attenuatus (Blandford, 1894), female specimen (2.70 mm) from Sovramonte (BL) R. N. Vette Feltrine (Veneto, Italy); lateral view (top), dorsal habitus (bottom) (photocredit: Reparto Carabinieri Biodiversita Belluno).