Parasitoids of Monochamus galloprovincialis (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), vector of the pine wood nematode, with identification key for the Palaearctic region
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Petersen-Silva, Ricardo
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Pujade-Villar, Juli
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Naves, Pedro
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Edmundo Sousa,
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Belokobylskij, Sergey
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.251.3986
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.251.3986
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Atanycolus denigrator (Linnaeus 1758)
Figures 7a, e
Material examined.
Portugal: 1 female, "Leiria, 1/6/2011", "Ensaio Pupas Natural", "Col.
Estacao
Florestal Nacional"; 1 male, "Leiria, 1/6/2011", "Ensaio Pupas Natural", "Col. Entomologica, est. Florestal".
Distribution.
Palaearctic: Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, former Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom. Afrotropical: Niger (
Yu et al. 2005
,
Wang et al. 2009
). This species is here recorded for Portugal for the first time.
Hosts.
Anthaxia morio
Fabricius,
Chrysobothris chrysostigma
Linnaeus,
Chrysobothris solieri
Laporte & Gory,
Lampra rutilans
(Fabricius),
Poecilonota variolosa
(Paykull) (
Buprestidae
);
Acanthocinus aedilis
Linnaeus,
Acanthocinus griseus
(Fabricius),
Arhopalus syriacus
(Reitter),
Monochamus galloprovincialis
(Oliver),
Monochamus sutor
(Linnaeus),
Rhagium indagator
Fabricius
,
Rhagium inquisitor
Linnaeus,
Rhagium mordax
(Degeer),
Saperda populnea
(Linnaeus),
Tetropium castaneum
(Linnaeus),
Tetropium fuscum
(Linnaeus),
Tetropium gabrieli
Weise (
Cerambycidae
);
Ips sexdentatus
(Boerner) (
Scolytidae
) (
Yu et al. 2005
,
Wang et al. 2009
).
Biology.
Atanycolus denigrator
is an ectoparasitoid of
Monochamus galloprovincialis
attacking
Pinus pinaster
. The species was found parasitizing the first larval instars under the bark of the tree.
Remarks.
Atanycolus denigrator
was already recorded in Italy as parasitoid of
Monochamus galloprovincialis
(
Campadelli and Scaramozzino 1994
). We additionally studied this reared Italian material in Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest (1 female, "Italia, Ravenna, 14.IV.1992, Campadelli", "Pinus picea", "ex larva
Monochamus galloprovincialis
Ol., 21.IV.1992", "
Atanycolus
♀ denigrator L. det. Papp J. 2000"; 1 female, same first label, but
"21.IV.1992"
, second and third labels are the same ones) and confirmed present determination.