Euwallacea interjectus, is a species of weevil native to Asia but introduced to Westerns parts of the world.[1][2]
Distribution
It is found in Myanmar, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Tibet, India, Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Mentawei, Sumatra), Malaysia, Sarawak, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, United States and Argentina.[3]
Biology
A large shothole borer, where the larva generally prefers host trees stressed by an occasional excessive abundance of water. Even the other ambrosia beetles live in dead tree trunks, this beetle is a parasite on living trees.[4][5] Adults and larvae feed on fungal mycelia, which is inoculated into the xylem. Later, fungus develops on the walls of the galleries tunneled in the sapwood which are colonized by adult females.
A polyphagous beetle, adult is a vector of plant pathogenic fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which has caused serious wilt disease in many fig orchards in Japan. To store the fungus, they have a structure called "mycangium".[6] They are strongly attracted to the plants in the family Urticaceae.[7]
References
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^ Cognato, Anthony I.; Hoebeke, E. Richard; Kajimura, Hisashi; Smith, Sarah M. (2015-06-01). "History of the Exotic Ambrosia Beetles Euwallacea interjectus and Euwallacea validus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Xyleborini) in the United States". Journal of Economic Entomology. 108 (3): 1129–1135. doi:10.1093/jee/tov073. PMID 26470238. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ "Species Euwallacea interjectus". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ "Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of , Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford 1894) (introduced)". www.barkbeetles.info. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ Wang, Zhangxun; Li, You; Ernstsons, A. Simon; Sun, Ronghua; Hulcr, Jiri; Gao, Lei (2021). "The infestation and habitat of the ambrosia beetle Euwallacea interjectus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the riparian zone of Shanghai, China". Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 23: 104–109. doi:10.1111/afe.12405. S2CID 225316402. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ Landi, Lucas; Braccini, Celina Laura; Knížek, Milos; Pereyra, Vanina Antonella; Marvaldi, Adriana Elena (April 2019). "A Newly Detected Exotic Ambrosia Beetle in Argentina: Euwallacea interjectus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)". Florida Entomologist. 102: 240–242. doi:10.1653/024.102.0141. S2CID 196683566. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ Jiang, Zi‐Ru; Kinoshita, Shun'ichi; Sasaki, Osamu; I. Cognato, Anthony; Kajimura, Hisashi (June 2019). "Non‐destructive observation of the mycangia of Euwallacea interjectus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) using X‐ray computed tomography". Entomological Science. 22 (2): 173–181. doi:10.1111/ens.12353. S2CID 91516805. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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^ "Euwallacea interjectus Wood & Bright, 1992". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
