Trogoderma variabile Ballion, 1878: a possible new pest of Italian entomological collections (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)

Abstract

The first infestation of an entomological collection in Italy by Trogoderma variabile Ballion, 1878 is recorded; it was detected in Rome in 2014. This record and another one from the Molise Region, are herein discussed. Distributional, biological and nomenclatural data on this polyphagous alien pest are summarized, and its possible local establishment is discussed.

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“…Origin: T. variabile is cosmopolitan species (Háva 2015). This species is registered in all zoogeographical regions, including: South Africa, Central and North America, Middle East, Asia and Australia (Háva 2003;Stejskal et al 2005) According to Nardi & Vomero (2017), in Europe, it was firstly recorded from Caucasus (Mroczkowski 1968) and since 1975 in other regions (cf. Šefrová & Laštůvka 2005;Denux & Zagatti 2010), and according EASIN (2018) the first introduction in Europe was in 1978 in UK (Denux & Zagatti 2010) primarily by trading (EASIN 2018).…”

“…DAISIE database lists only the distribution in Czech Republic, Finland, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia and Sweden (DAISIE 2018). In recent literature (Nardi & Vomero 2017) the species presence is registered in other parts of Europe: Armenia, Belarus, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, South European Russia, Sweden, The Netherlands (Barševskis 2001;Hagstrum et al 2013;Zhantiev 2013;Háva 2015) as well as Asia: Kyrgyzstan (Ovchinnikov 1996) and Syria (Pic 1908;Háva 2007).…”