ACCIDENTAL INTRODUCTION IN ITALY OF THE PARASITOIDSPATHIUS VULNIFICUSWILKINSON (HYMENOPTERA BRACONIDAE DORYCTINAE)

Authors

  • COSTANZA JUCKER DeFENS - Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
  • AUGUSTO LONI Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Pisa University, Italy
  • MATTIA CALZOLARI
  • SERGEY BELOKOBYLSKIJ Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
  • DANIELA LUPI Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Italy

Keywords:

biological control, exotic species, new invasion, parasitoid

Abstract

This paper reports the finding of the Hymenoptera Doryctinae Spathius vulnificusWilkinson for the first time inEurope. This is an idiobiont ectoparasitoid attacking woodborer larvae of some Bostrichidae (Coleoptera) species. Suchexotic parasitoid, mainly spread in the Oriental and southeastern part of the Palaeartic Region, has been intercepted inassociation with the lesser auger beetle Heterobostrychusaequalis (Waterhouse)(Coleoptera, Bostrichidae), importedfrom the Asian Far East in wood packaging material. This report represents an updating on the worldwide distribution ofthe parasitoid.

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Published

2019-01-09

Issue

Vol. 101 (2018)

Section

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