Survey of predators associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with redescription of Platysoma rimarium Erichson, 1834 from Kashmir, India

Khanday, Abdul Lateef; Buhroo, Abdul Ahad; Singh, Sudhir; Ranjith, A.P.; Mazur, S.

doi:10.1016/j.japb.2018.07.004

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“…Insect predation is an important ecosystem function that is sensitive to landscape simplification (Dainese et al., 2019 ), and greater diversity of beetle predators is related to higher insect predation rates in forests (Wetherbee, Birkemoe, & Sverdrup‐Thygeson, 2020 ). Also, research on the natural enemies of bark beetles indicates that invertebrate predators play a major role in regulating their populations (Khanday et al., 2018 ; Wegensteiner et al., 2015 ). Therefore, our results highlight the potential cost of intensive forest management in that it may degrade forest resilience by diminishing predatory communities, potentially increasing the chances of insect pest outbreaks (Snyder, 2019 ).…”

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Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness

Wetherbee,

Birkemoe,

Burner

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Forests contribute to numerous ecosystem functions and services and contain a large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity, but they are being negatively impaced by anthropogenic activities. Forests that have never been clear‐cut and have old growth characteristics, termed “near‐natural,” often harbor different and richer species assemblages than managed forests. Alternative management strategies may be able to balance the needs of biodiversity with the demands of forestry, but evaluation efforts are limited by the challenges of measuring biodiversity. Species richness is frequently used as a simple measure of biodiversity, but research indicates that it may not adequately capture community‐level changes. Alternatively, trait‐based measures of biodiversity may prove to be useful, but research is lacking. In this paper, we use a large dataset that includes 339 obligate saproxylic beetle species collected over a decade in the boreal region throughout southern Norway to: (1) establish if there is a difference in beetle community composition between near‐natural and managed forests; and (2) determine which measures of beetle biodiversity best indicate forest naturalness. We arranged the sites in an ordination space and tested for differences in community composition between these forest types. We also tested different measures of biodiversity to determine which were the most predictive of forest naturalness. We found a clear difference in community composition between near‐natural and managed forests. Additionally, three measures of biodiversity were most predictive of forest naturalness: proportional abundance of predators, community weighted mean (CWM) of wing length, and CWM of body roundness. The probability that a forest was near‐natural increased with the proportional abundance of predators but decreased with CWM wing length and body roundness. Although species richness was higher in near‐natural forests, the effect was not significant. Overall, our findings underscore the conservation value of near‐natural forests and highlight the potential of several measures of biodiversity for determining forest quality.

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Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness

Wetherbee,

Birkemoe,

Burner

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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“…The beetles attack both felled green trees and green branches of the host tree (P. wallichiana), and are not so susceptible to the rapid drying of host material, as is the case of Scolytus kashmirensis (Buhroo and Khanday 2015). At times, this can necessitate control and management strategies (Khanday et al 2018a(Khanday et al , b, 2019. The results of the present study throw light on various aspects of the bark beetle pest (P. major) and its susceptibility towards host tree and provides a basis for future studies of the Himalayan bark beetle fauna and their economic importance in forestry, timber production and crop tree plantations.…”

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A review of the Indian species of genus Polygraphus erichson, 1836 (coleoptera: curculionidae: Scolytinae) with bio-ecological notes on P. major, a pest of Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks (Pinaceae) in Kashmir, India

Khanday

Buhroo

Керчев

et al. 2020

Folia Forestalia Polonica

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The Indian species of the genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) collected from various localities of the Western Himalayan region and the species available at the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India) were studied and are reviewed herewith. A key to Indian species of Polygraphus is provided. Detailed bioecological field and laboratory observations of P. major including mating behaviour, gallery pattern, life cycle and seasonal history are reported.

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“…Natural enemies such as predators, parasitoids and pathogens play an important role in pest population regulation (Kirisits 2004;Vega, Kaya 2012). Predators can feed on many individual prey on the bark surface and beneath the bark during their lifetimes (Wegensteiner et al 2015;Khanday et al 2018). Clerid beetles are the most impor-tant coleopteran predators and act as a biological control agent against bark beetles (Costello 2003;Schroeder 2003;Akbulut et al 2005;Özcan, Koçoğlu 2018).…”

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First report of Thanasimus femoralis (Zetterstedt, 1828) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) in forest nursery in the Western Black Sea Region of Türkiye

Öztürk,

Yüksel

2023

J. For. Sci.

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In this study, the first observation of Thanasimus femoralis was conducted in Türkiye. Adults of T. femoralis and Thanasimus formicarius were collected from pheromone traps together with Ips sexdentatus, Ips acuminatus, Ips mannsfeldi, and Scolytus intricatus in forest nurseries located in the Western Black Sea Region, between 2021 and 2022. The clerid and bark beetles were morphologically described. The aedeagus and antennae of T. femoralis were observed by scanning electron microscopy.

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Survey of predators associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with redescription of Platysoma rimarium Erichson, 1834 from Kashmir, India

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness

Saproxylic beetles' morphological traits and higher trophic guilds indicate boreal forest naturalness

A review of the Indian species of genus Polygraphus erichson, 1836 (coleoptera: curculionidae: Scolytinae) with bio-ecological notes on P. major, a pest of Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks (Pinaceae) in Kashmir, India

First report of Thanasimus femoralis (Zetterstedt, 1828) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) in forest nursery in the Western Black Sea Region of Türkiye

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