New Records of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) from Cuba with Description of a New Species

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A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China

“… Xylosandrus was recently revised by Dole and Cognato (2010) but two additional species have since been described ( Gomez et al 2020 ; Park et al 2020 ) and one species, X. ramulorum (Schedl, 1957), was transferred from Amasa ( Sittichaya et al 2019 ).…”

Potential Pest Bark and Ambrosia Beetles from Cuba Not Present in the Continental United States

“…Specimens examined for this review were obtained from the cryopreserved Bark Beetle Collection at the University of Florida Forest Entomology lab managed by JH (University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA), the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (Gainesville, Florida, USA), the Basic Collection of the Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Havana, Cuba), the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa, Canada), the National Museum of Natural History (Washington DC, USA), or collected by the authors in Cuba. Distribution records are as reported in Atkinson (2019), Bright (2019), Gomez et al (2019), and Wood and Bright (1992). Details on locality were included only for Cuba.…”

“…Because of the geographic proximity with Cuba, where several economically important groups of insects are under-documented, potential pests can become established if mutual trade reestablishes. For example, 3 new species within the genus Xylosandrus Reitter (Scolytinae: Xyleborini), economically important for nurseries and commercial plantations across the world, have been recorded recently from the island, including 2 new species to science (Bright 2019;Gomez et al 2019). Although none of these new records were considered to be pests in Cuba, attention should be paid to new species within Xyleborus Eichhoff (Scolytinae: Xyleborini) and Xylosandrus (Bright 2019;Gomez et al 2019), because other members of these genera have caused significant damage in the USA when introduced into a naïve environ-ment.…”

“…For example, 3 new species within the genus Xylosandrus Reitter (Scolytinae: Xyleborini), economically important for nurseries and commercial plantations across the world, have been recorded recently from the island, including 2 new species to science (Bright 2019;Gomez et al 2019). Although none of these new records were considered to be pests in Cuba, attention should be paid to new species within Xyleborus Eichhoff (Scolytinae: Xyleborini) and Xylosandrus (Bright 2019;Gomez et al 2019), because other members of these genera have caused significant damage in the USA when introduced into a naïve environ-ment. In addition, the presence of Ips calligraphus interstitialis (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a sub-species of Ips calligraphus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) present in the Caribbean, can become a pest in the pine forest ecosystems in the southeastern USA.…”

Peering into the Cuba phytosanitary black box: An institutional and policy analysis

“…Pest identifiers at Points of Entry and the LAPROSAVs lack essential resources such as entomological collections. Reference collections should be the core of the national capacity for pest identification and management, but they are not developed enough to support that role in Cuba [67]. Moreover, Cuba has trade with Europe, and the latter follows strict guidelines related to phytosanitary inspection and control [68].…”