Eur. J. Entomol. 116: 244-252, 2019 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2019.028

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

Marc F. DIGIROLOMO1, Eduard JENDEK2, Vasily V. GREBENNIKOV3, Oto NAKLÁDAL2
1 USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health, 271 Mast Rd., Durham, NH 03824, USA; e-mail: marc.f.digirolomo@usda.gov
2 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 1176, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mails: jendeke@gmail.com, nakladal@fld.czu.cz
3 Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 960 Carling Av., Ottawa, K1A 0C6, Canada; e-mail: vasily.grebennikov@canada.ca

This paper reports a non-native Agrilus wood-boring jewel beetle reared from a stressed and non-native European beech (Fagus sylvatica) tree growing in New York City, USA. Results of two analyses using 759 DNA barcodes of Agrilus corroborate the morphology-based interpretation that this is the first North American record of an unnamed species from the A. roscidus species-group native to the Western Palaearctic. Taxonomy of the entire species-group requires revision, therefore we postpone formal description of the new species and refer to it as Agrilus sp. 9895. This is the 12th non-native Agrilus established in North America. Prior to our study, members of the A. roscidus species-group were not known to develop in Fagus, therefore we hypothesise whether our record is a host plant shift linked to the human-mediated transatlantic dispersal, or a case of an elusive beetle escaping detection in Fagus in its unknown native range. All 759 herein analysed DNA barcodes of Agrilus (including, when present, specimen images and georeferences) are available online at dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-VGDS010.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilus, North America, New York City, invasive alien species, Fagus

Received: April 25, 2019; Revised: July 10, 2019; Accepted: July 10, 2019; Published online: July 19, 2019  Show citation

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DIGIROLOMO, M.F., JENDEK, E., GREBENNIKOV, V.V., & NAKLÁDAL, O. (2019). First North American record of an unnamed West Palaearctic Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) infesting European beech (Fagus sylvatica) in New York City, USA. EJE, 116, Article 244-252. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2019.028
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