New records of non-native Coleoptera in Italy
Author
Ruzzier, Enrico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1020-1247
Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy & NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy & World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy
enrico.ruzzier@uniroma3.it
Author
Morin, Lucio
World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy
Author
Zugno, Matteo
Regione Lombardia, Laboratorio del Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale c / o Fondazione Minoprio, Vertemate con Minoprio, Italy
Author
Tapparo, Andrea
Regione Lombardia, Laboratorio del Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale c / o Fondazione Minoprio, Vertemate con Minoprio, Italy
Author
Bani, Luciano
University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Milan, Italy & NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
Author
Di Giulio, Andrea
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0508-0751
Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy & NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2023
2023-10-17
11
111487
111487
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e111487
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e111487
1314-2828-11-e111487
26C43A7A698E5146A8C3B98BDCD1E581
Ambrosiophilus atratus (Eichhoff, 1875)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
.
Occurrence
:
individualCount:
1
; occurrenceID:
2085F599-D9B3-55AC-AC25-98DAADC6DE68
;
Taxon
:
scientificName:
Ambrosiophilus
atratus (Eichhoff 1875); family:
Curculionidae
;
Location
:
country:
Italy
; countryCode: IT; stateProvince:
Lombardia
; locality:
Pioltello
; decimalLatitude:
45.4698309832381
; decimalLongitude:
9.32013889739963
; geodeticDatum: WGS84;
Identification
:
identifiedBy:
Enrico Ruzzier
;
Event
:
eventDate:
2021-04-0
Distribution
Ambrosiophilus atratus
is an ambrosia beetle native to the Eastern Palearctic now established in France, Italy and Slovenia (
Faccoli 2008
,
Dodelin 2019
,
Hauptman et al. 2019
). The present finding is the first record of the species in Lombardy.
Notes
Ambrosiophilus atratus
is a highly polyphagous species, capable of developing in both hardwoods and conifers (
Ruzzier et al. 2023
). Recent observations, coupled with the lack of damage attributable to the species, however, seem to suggest that
A. atratus
might have a negligible phytosanitary value, preferring severely debilitated or already dead plants as reproductive substrate (
Ranger et al. 2010
,
Reed et al. 2015
,
Ruzzier et al. 2022a
).