Biology:Euwallacea interjectus

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Euwallacea interjectus
Scientific classification
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Curculionoidea
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Genus:
Euwallacea
Species:
E. interjectus
Binomial name
Euwallacea interjectus
(Blandford 1894) Wood & Bright, 1992
Synonyms
  • Xyleborus interjectus Blandford, 1894
  • Eggers, 1925 Xyleborus pseudovalidus

Euwallacea interjectus, is a species of weevil native to Asia but introduced to Westerns parts of the world.[1][2]

Distribution

It is found in Myanmar, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Tibet, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Mentawei, Sumatra), Malaysia, Sarawak, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, United States and Argentina.[3]

Biology

A large shothole borer, where the larva generally prefers host trees stressed by an occasional excessive abundance of water. Even the other ambrosia beetles live in dead tree trunks, this beetle is a parasite on living trees.[4][5] Adults and larvae feed on fungal mycelia, which is inoculated into the xylem. Later, fungus develops on the walls of the galleries tunneled in the sapwood which are colonized by adult females.

A polyphagous beetle, adult is a vector of plant pathogenic fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which has caused serious wilt disease in many fig orchards in Japan. To store the fungus, they have a structure called "mycangium".[6] They are strongly attracted to the plants in the family Urticaceae.[7]

References

  1. Cognato, Anthony I.; Hoebeke, E. Richard; Kajimura, Hisashi; Smith, Sarah M. (2015-06-01). "History of the Exotic Ambrosia Beetles Euwallacea interjectus and Euwallacea validus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Xyleborini) in the United States". Journal of Economic Entomology 108 (3): 1129–1135. doi:10.1093/jee/tov073. PMID 26470238. 
  2. "Species Euwallacea interjectus". https://bugguide.net/node/view/893899/bgimage. 
  3. "Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of , Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford 1894) (introduced)". https://www.barkbeetles.info/regional_chklist_target_species.php?lookUp=1966. 
  4. Wang, Zhangxun; Li, You; Ernstsons, A. Simon; Sun, Ronghua; Hulcr, Jiri; Gao, Lei (2021). "The infestation and habitat of the ambrosia beetle Euwallacea interjectus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the riparian zone of Shanghai, China". Agricultural and Forest Entomology 23: 104–109. doi:10.1111/afe.12405. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/afe.12405. Retrieved 2021-08-24. 
  5. Landi, Lucas; Braccini, Celina Laura; Knížek, Milos; Pereyra, Vanina Antonella; Marvaldi, Adriana Elena (April 2019). "A Newly Detected Exotic Ambrosia Beetle in Argentina: Euwallacea interjectus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)". Florida Entomologist 102: 240–242. doi:10.1653/024.102.0141. 
  6. Jiang, Zi-Ru; Kinoshita, Shun'ichi; Sasaki, Osamu; I. Cognato, Anthony; Kajimura, Hisashi (June 2019). "Non-destructive observation of the mycangia of Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) using X-ray computed tomography" (in en). Entomological Science 22 (2): 173–181. doi:10.1111/ens.12353. 
  7. "Euwallacea interjectus Wood & Bright, 1992" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/1227922. 

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