Taxonomic, distributional and biological study of the genus Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Part II
Author
Jendek, Eduard
Author
Nakládal, Oto
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-02-11
4554
2
401
459
journal article
27569
10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.5
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1175-5326
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Agrilus planipennis
Fairmaire, 1888
(
Figs 5
A–5F, 6A–6D)
Examined specimens.
CHINA
.
Beijing
.
Badalingzhen
env.;
40°21'43"N
,
115°55'57"E
; 6-2016; alt.
600 m
; 1 (EJCB)
//
Xiaolongmen Nat. Park
;
39°57'53"N
,
115°26'07"E
; 6-2016; alt.
1000–1300 m
;
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
(
EJCB
)
.
Jilin
.
Dashi
,
40 km
SE
Jilin
city;
43°33'46"N
,
126°51'E
; 6-2017; alt.
350 m
; 1 (
EJCB
)
//
Erdaozun
;
42°25'54"N
,
128°06'50"E
; 7-2017; alt.
700 m
; Larval host:
Fraxinus
; 10 (
EJCB
)
//
Jiaohe
env.,
95 km
NEE
Jilin
;
43°57'N
,
127°42'E
; 6, 7-2017; alt.
400–600 m
; Larval host:
Fraxinus
; 14 (
EJCB
)
//
Jiaohe
,
Pingdigoucun
env.;
43°57'35"N
,
127°41'38"E
; 6, 7-2015; 2 (
BUJC
)
//
Jilin
city,
Songhua river
;
43°47'16"N
,
126°34'30"E
; 6-2017; alt.
200 m
; Larval host:
Fraxinus
; 3 (
EJCB
)
.
Host plant cited
. Larval:
Fraxinus
.
Biological remarks
. During the visit of senior author in
China
in
2016–2017
, the massive outbreak of
A. planipennis
was observed in Badalingzhen (
Beijing
,
China
) on
Fraxinus velutina
(
Figs 5
A–5B) in 2016, and a year later, virtually all visited sites in
Jilin province
(
Jilin
City, Erdaozun, Jiaohe) with planted
Fraxinus
in urban areas were heavily infested (
Figs 5D, 5F
,
6
A–6D). Additionally, the couple of adults and galleries of
A. planipennis
were found in the Xiaolongmen National Park in
Beijing
province in the native habitat and on the native
Fraxinus
. Galleries (
Figs 5C, 5E
) bored by a single larva in living branches of smaller diameter (
5–10 cm
) were found on younger or shrubby ashes. Infested branches dried, but no tree mortality was observed.