Xylosandrus germanus

Xylosandrus germanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Curculionidae
Genus:Xylosandrus
Species: X. germanus
Binomial name
Xylosandrus germanus
(Blandford, 1894)

Xylosandrus germanus, known generally as the alnus ambrosia beetle or black stem borer, is a species of ambrosia beetle in the family Curculionidae.[1][2][3][4] The black stem borer is native to eastern Asia, but is an invasive species in Europe and North America.[5] It carries an associated ambrosia fungus, Ambrosiella hartigii.[6]

Alnus ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus germanus

References

  1. ↑ "Xylosandrus germanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. ↑ "Xylosandrus germanus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  3. ↑ "Xylosandrus germanus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. ↑ "Xylosandrus germanus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ↑ Inward, Daegan (2015). "Rapid Pest Risk Analysis for Xylosandrus germanus (Coleoptera: Scolytinae)". Forest Research. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Weber, BC; McPhearson, JE (1984). "The ambrosia fungus of Xylosandrus germanus (Coleoptera:Scolytidae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 116 (2): 281–283.

Further reading

  • Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 84-605-9994-9.
  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

  • "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  • Media related to Xylosandrus germanus at Wikimedia Commons


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