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- Title
THE ANOPLOPHORA CHINENSIS (FÖRSTER) (COLEOPTERA CERAMBYCIDAE LAMIINAE) OUTBREAKS IN ITALY: A POSSIBLE GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN.
- Authors
STRANGI, AGOSTINO; BINAZZI, FRANCESCO; PEVERIERI, GIUSEPPINO SABBATINI; ROVERSI, PIO FEDERICO
- Abstract
Anoplophora chinensis (Förster) (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) is a long-horned beetle native to Eastern Asia. It is a polyphagous pest responsible for severe damages to a wide range of woody plants of various sizes and ages and thus it is included in the quarantine lists of several countries of the world. Even though the current strengthening of inspection procedures has limited the spread of this species, three outbreaks have been recently reported in Italy. In this work, we identified five haplotypes in the barcode fragment of Cytochrome Oxidase I gene that characterize specimens collected in infested Italian sites. Furthermore, in order to locate the origin of the outbreaks, we reconstructed the haplotypic network between Italian populations and those reported for various geographical regions of East Asia. We found that haplotypes from Regions Lazio and Lombardy were closer to haplotypes harboured by Japanese populations of A. chinensis while those from Tuscany, were more closely related to the Chinese ones.
- Subjects
ANOPLOPHORA; CERAMBYCIDAE; BEETLES; HOST plants; PLANT diseases; INTRODUCED species; ASIAN longhorned beetle
- Publication
Redia: Journal of Zoology / Giornale di Zoologia, 2017, Vol 100, p175
- ISSN
0370-4327
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19263/REDIA-100.17.22