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
Cnestus mutilatus (Blandford, 1894)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
.
Occurrence
:
recordedBy:
Enrico Ruzzier
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
female
; occurrenceID:
867EB1BE-5F06-5C36-BFA3-378BF566184B
;
Taxon
:
scientificName:
Cnestus
mutilatus (Blandford, 1894); family:
Curculionida
;
Location
:
country:
Italy
; countryCode: IT; stateProvince:
Veneto
; municipality:
Borso del Grappa
; decimalLatitude:
45.815456
; decimalLongitude:
11.769814
; geodeticDatum: WGS84;
Identification
:
identifiedBy:
Enrico Ruzzier
;
Event
:
eventDate:
2023-08-08
Distribution
Species native to the Oriental and Eastern Palearctic Regions, established in North America (
Gomez et al. 2018
,
Smith et al. 2020
) and Italy (
Colombari et al. 2022
,
Marchioro et al. 2022
). This finding further extends the distribution range of the species.
Notes
Cnestus mutilatus
is a somewhat polyphagous species (
Ruzzier et al. 2023b
), including plants of economic/productive relevance (e.g.
Mandelshtam et al. (2019)
,
Ruzzier et al. (2021b)
,
Monterrosa et al. (2022)
), yet its host plants in Europe were not known. The specimen on which the report is based was found in a tunnel bored into a branch of an unidentified conifer (probably
Abies
). This is the first observation in which
C. mutilatus
was found in association with a conifer; however, it is plausible that this plant might not be a reproductive host.