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Issue: Vol. 4138 No. 1: 14 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.10
Page range: 189–194
Abstract views: 90
PDF downloaded: 3

Two newly introduced tropical bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) damaging figs (Ficus carica) in southern Italy

Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Viale dell'Università, 16—35020 Legnaro (PD).
Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dell’Agricoltura, dello Sviluppo Rurale e della Pesca Mediterranea, Servizio 9, Laboratorio di difesa fitosanitaria, Via Sclafani, 34—95024 Acireale (CT).
Regione Siciliana, Assessorato dell’Agricoltura, dello Sviluppo Rurale e della Pesca Mediterranea, Servizio 18—Ufficio Servizio per il Territorio di Siracusa—Via S. Giovanni alle Catacombe, 7—96100 Siracusa (SR)
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Viale dell'Università, 16—35020 Legnaro (PD).
Coleoptera biological invasions exotic species new records scolytids Hypocryphalus scabricollis Xyleborus bispinatus

Abstract

In summer 2014, the bark beetle Hypocryphalus scabricollis (Eichhoff) and the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus bispinatus Eichhoff, species new to Italy and Europe, respectively, were found for the first time in south-eastern Sicily (Italy). Large infestations of the two species were recorded in many plantations of common fig (Ficus carica L.) both in 2014 and 2015. Data concerning insect characteristics, taxonomy, and distribution are briefly reported.

 

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