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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 2: 6 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.2.6
Page range: 261-271
Abstract views: 240
PDF downloaded: 34

FIRST REPORT OF ANISANDRUS MAICHE (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: SCOLYTINAE) INFESTING APPLE TREES

Department of Entomology; Cornell University; Cornell AgriTech; 15 Castle Creek Dr.; Geneva; NY 14456; USA
Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit; Agricultural Research Service; United States Department of Agriculture; RW Holley Center; 538 Tower Road; Ithaca; NY 14853; USA
Department of Entomology; Cornell University; Cornell AgriTech; 15 Castle Creek Dr.; Geneva; NY 14456; USA
Department of Entomology; Cornell University; Cornell AgriTech; 15 Castle Creek Dr.; Geneva; NY 14456; USA
Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit; Agricultural Research Service; United States Department of Agriculture; RW Holley Center; 538 Tower Road; Ithaca; NY 14853; USA
Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit; Agricultural Research Service; United States Department of Agriculture; RW Holley Center; 538 Tower Road; Ithaca; NY 14853; USA
Department of Entomology; Cornell University; Cornell AgriTech; 15 Castle Creek Dr.; Geneva; NY 14456; USA
Coleoptera Xyleborini Overwinter Orchard Ambrosia beetle Pest

Abstract

Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are among the most devastating pests of orchards, nurseries, and forest ecosystems. Anisandrus maiche (Kurentzov) has been regularly captured in ethanol-baited traps along woody edges of apple (Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh.) orchards in western New York alongside a known apple pest, Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford). However, this species has yet to be a confirmed pest of apple trees. In winter 2024, we conducted a series of dissections of potted apple trees with visible ambrosia beetle attacks (i.e. entry holes, exit holes). Our examination revealed the presence of active A. maiche galleries housing mainly larvae, a few adults, and the fungal symbiont Ambrosiella cleistominuta C. Mayers & T.C. Harr This is a first report of Anisandrus maiche attacking apple trees. 

 

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