Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of Coleoptera emergent from various decay classes of downed coarse woody debris in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (260), pp. 1-8 : 24

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5187720
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scientific name	Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky)
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Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) View in CoL ( Fig. 31 View Figures 27–32 )

Range: northeastern United States, west to Texas. Habitat: attacks landscape and nursery stock.

Collection Method: emergence, Frontalin-baited trap. Biology: introduced species from Asia, reported to attack cut or injured trees 1.5 cm diameter to large logs. Present Study: significantly higher abundance in secondary forest. References: Wood 1982 (and references therein); Peck and Thomas 1998; Rabaglia 2003.

References

Peck, S. B., and M. C. Thomas. 1998. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 16: viii + 180.

Rabaglia, R. J. 2003. Annotated list of the bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) of Maryland, with new distributional records. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105: 373 - 379.

Wood, S. L. 1982. The bark and ambrosia beetles of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolyti- dae), a taxonomic monograph. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 6: 1 - 1359.

Figures

Figures 27–32. Habitus images. 27) Apteromechus ferratus (Say) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 28) Cophes fallax (LeConte) (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae). 29) Dryophthorus americanus (Bedel) (Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae). 30) Xyleborus atratus Eichhoff (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 31) Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae). 32) Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Curculionidae: Scolytinae).