Euwallacea interjectus

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Euwallacea interjectus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Phytophaga
Superfamily:
Curculionoidea
Family:
Curculionidae
Genus:
Species:
E. interjectus
Binomial name
Euwallacea interjectus
(Blandford 1894) Wood & Bright, 1992
Synonyms
  • Xyleborus interjectus Blandford, 1894
  • Xyleborus pseudovalidus Eggers, 1925

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, , 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. pp. 1129–1135. doi:10.1093/jee/tov073. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  2. ^ "Species Euwallacea interjectus". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  3. ^ "Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of , Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford 1894) (introduced)". www.barkbeetles.info. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  4. ^ "The infestation and habitat of the ambrosia beetle Euwallacea interjectus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the riparian zone of Shanghai, China". doi: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. pp. 240–242. doi:10.1653/024.102.0141. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  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". Entomological Science. pp. 173–181. doi:10.1111/ens.12353. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
  7. ^ "Euwallacea interjectus Wood & Bright, 1992". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-08-24.


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