First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae)

Hoebeke, E. Richard; Jendek, Eduard; Zablotny, James E.; Rieder, Ryan; Yoo, Rosa; Grebennikov, Vasily V.; Ren, Lily

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.119.3.408

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“…Nevertheless, the herein released DNA database of several hundred samples and about 100 species provides the first dataset likely capable to identify an unknown Agrilus specimen from the northern temperate zone of the Globe. This has significant practical utility, since considering the history of Agrilus invasions (Hoebeke et al , 2017), this region contains the highest number of economically important and potentially harmful species. Our results convincingly demonstrate that, unlike the minimalistic DNA barcode approach, the multi-marker phylogenetic analysis has a notably higher potential to place an unknown sample among the phylogenetically closest and taxonomically identified relatives.…”

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“…Indeed, human-mediated range expansions are well documented in Agrilus with at least 11 Eurasian species having been introduced to North America: Agrilus cuprescens (Ménétriés), Agrilus cyanescens (Ratzeburg), Agrilus derasofasciatus Lacordaire, Agrilus hyperici (Creutzer), Agrilus pilosovittatus Saunders, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, Agrilus ribesi Schaefer, Agrilussinuatus (Olivier), Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer, Agrilus subrobustus Saunders, and Agrilus sulcicollis Lacordaire (Jendek & Grebennikov, 2009; Jendek, 2016; Hoebeke et al , 2017). The European species, Agrilus angustulus (Illiger), might have been introduced to the Russian Far East, while the North American species, Agrilus bilineatus (Weber), is the first among the Nearctic species to reach the Palaearctic Region (based on the single record in Turkey, Jendek 2016).…”

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First molecular phylogeny ofAgrilus(Coleoptera: Buprestidae), the largest genus on Earth, with DNA barcode database for forestry pest diagnostics

Kelnarová¹,

Jendek

Grebennikov

et al. 2018

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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All more than 3000 species of Agrilus beetles are phytophagous and some cause economically significant damage to trees and shrubs. Facilitated by international trade, Agrilus species regularly invade new countries and continents. This necessitates a rapid identification of Agrilus species, as the first step for subsequent protective measures. This study provides the first DNA reference library for ~100 Agrilus species from the Northern Hemisphere based on three mitochondrial markers: cox1-5' (DNA barcode fragment), cox1-3', and rrnL. All 329 Agrilus records available in the Barcode of Life Database format, including specimen images and geo data, are released through a public dataset 'Agrilus1 329' available at: dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-AGRILUS1. All Agrilus species were identified using adult morphology and by using molecular phylogenetic trees, as well as distance- and tree-based algorithms. Most DNA-based species limits agree well with the morphology-based identification. Our results include cases of high intraspecific variability and multiple species para- and polyphyly. DNA barcoding is a powerful species identification tool in Agrilus, although it frequently fails to recover morphologically-delimited Agrilus species-group. Even though the current three-gene database covers only ~3% of the known Agrilus diversity, it contains representatives of all principal lineages from the Northern Hemisphere and represents the most extensive dataset built for DNA-delimited species identification within this genus so far. Molecular data analyses can rapidly and cost-effectively identify an unknown sample, including immature stages and/or non-native taxa, or species not yet formally named.

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First molecular phylogeny ofAgrilus(Coleoptera: Buprestidae), the largest genus on Earth, with DNA barcode database for forestry pest diagnostics

Kelnarová¹,

Jendek

Grebennikov

et al. 2018

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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“…Additionally, yet another oleacous plant, olive, Olea spp., has been added to an expanding host list for EAB (Cipollini et al 2017) raising concerns about the far-reaching implications of this invasive pest. Furthermore, an Asian conspecific of EAB, A. smaragdifons Ganglbauer has reportedly established in eastern North America (Hoebeke et al 2017). These confounding factors are likely to further contribute to the economic and ecological costs associated with the EAB invasion in North America and perhaps globally.…”

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Host range expansion may provide enemy free space for the highly invasive emerald ash borer

Olson

Rieske

2018

Biol Invasions

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Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), is an aggressive invader from Asia that has killed millions of trees in North America, causing substantial ecosystem effects and economic losses. All North American ash, Fraxinus spp., are thought to be susceptible, but recently emerald ash borer has been documented developing in a novel host, white fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus. We evaluated larval performance in two common ash species and white fringetree by infesting bolts with emerald ash borer eggs. In addition we evaluated cambial nitrogen, carbon, carbon:nitrogen, stem density, and response to artificial wounding, to determine which host plant characteristics most influence larval development. We also conducted choice and no choice assays using the classical biological control agent, Tetrastichus planipennisi Yang (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), to assess its ability to locate larval emerald ash borer in the different host plants. We found significantly lower survival rates of emerald ash borer larvae in white fringetree compared to white ash, F. americana. Larval phloem consumption and larval growth were lower in fringetree than in either white or blue ash, F. quadrangulata. Carbon content and density were greater in fringetree than in either ash species. Response to wounding, measured by callus tissue formation, was greatest in white ash. In choice assays, T. planipennisi only parasitized emerald ash borer larvae in ash bolts, and in no-choice tests failed to parasitize larvae in fringetree. Our findings corroborate studies showing that fringetree is a suitable host for emerald ash borer larvae. Failure of T. planipennisi to parasitize larvae within fringetree has implications for the efficacy of this classical biological control agent in regulating emerald ash borer populations. Coupled with the use of white fringetree as a reservoir host, the enemy free space provided to emerald ash borer through use of this alternate host may have significant repercussions for emerald ash borer invasion dynamics.

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“…Many Agrilus species capitalize on their human-mediated transoceanic dispersal and successfully establish on new continents (Hoebeke et al, 2017 and references therein for North America; Hizal & Arslangündoğdu, 2018 for Europe). To date, 11 Agrilus species-group taxa found in America north of Mexico are thought to be non-native (Jendek & Grebennikov, 2009;Jendek et al, 2015;Hoebeke et al, 2017), while at the turn of the millennium this number was only six (Table 1). Most infamous of the new arrivals is Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888, native to East Asia and colloquially known The goal of this paper is to document the detection of an unknown Agrilus wood-borer in NYC and to unfold a sequence of analytical steps towards its identifi cation and testing of our six initial predictions.…”

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First North American record of an unnamed West Palaearctic Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) infesting European beech (Fagus sylvatica) in New York City, USA

DiGirolomo¹,

Jendek²,

Grebennikov³

et al. 2019

Eur. J. Entomol.

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http://www.eje.cz as "emerald ash borer". This species has invaded North America (Haack et al., 2002) and Europe (Baranchikov et al., 2008) causing widespread mortality of ash and was assessed as "the most costly biological invasion by an exotic forest insect to date" (Herms & McCullough, 2014). Notably, the herein reported NYC Agrilus was attacking a nonnative tree growing in the heart of a large urban conglomerate not too distant from a major international trade port. These observations were consistent with a hypothesis that the unknown NYC Agrilus might be yet another unwanted human-mediated addition to the Nearctic fauna, potentially capable of infl icting damage to an important urban tree in parts of North America. Preliminary morphology-based identifi cation (see Material and methods and Results) suggested that the NYC Agrilus adults belong to the A. roscidus species-group (ARSG, as defi ned in Jendek & Grebennikov, 2011) with 13 species-group taxa (Table 2). Members of the ARSG are externally similar among themselves and their reliable species-level morphological identifi cation is based on male characters. The most important diagnostic characters are body size and color, shape of antennomeres, shape of pronotum, type and length of prehumerus, shape of aedeagus

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First North American Records of the Eastasian Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae), a Specialist on Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima, Simaroubaceae)

Cited by 15 publications

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First molecular phylogeny ofAgrilus(Coleoptera: Buprestidae), the largest genus on Earth, with DNA barcode database for forestry pest diagnostics

First molecular phylogeny ofAgrilus(Coleoptera: Buprestidae), the largest genus on Earth, with DNA barcode database for forestry pest diagnostics

Host range expansion may provide enemy free space for the highly invasive emerald ash borer

First North American record of an unnamed West Palaearctic Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) infesting European beech (Fagus sylvatica) in New York City, USA

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