Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, Spain. 2Sanidad Agrcola Econex S.L., Spain..
Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali, Universit degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy..
Zootaxa. 2022 Aug 9;5174(2):157-164. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.2.
We present the first record of the tropical ambrosia beetle Xyleborus bispinatus in the Iberian Peninsula, collected in traps located in Murcia, Alicante and Valencia provinces (Spain). Insects have been captured in baited traps of long-time trapping networks (ESFP, MUFFET, RAT and SAMFIX) installed in Eastern Spain. Several individuals (410) of X. bispinatus have been collected in seven locations, first in 2009 in Murcia Region, and from 2018 to 2021 in Valencia Region. No attacks by X. bispinatus have been detected on plants thus far, and therefore the host plant in Spain remains unknown. Stable X. bispinatus populations have been detected in a wide area of central Valencian province. We may consider this as an alarming scenario that should be kept under surveillance by maintaining the current trapping network and intensifying the search for the host plants.
我们首次在伊比利亚半岛记录到热带粉蠹 Xyleborus bispinatus，该物种是在西班牙穆尔西亚、阿利坎特和瓦伦西亚三省的诱捕器中采集到的。昆虫是在西班牙东部长期诱捕网络（ESFP、MUFFET、RAT 和 SAMFIX）的诱捕器中捕获的。在七个地点共收集到 410 只 X. bispinatus，首次于 2009 年在穆尔西亚地区，以及 2018 年至 2021 年在瓦伦西亚地区发现。迄今为止，尚未发现 X. bispinatus 对植物的攻击，因此西班牙的寄主植物仍不清楚。在瓦伦西亚省中部的广大地区已经检测到稳定的 X. bispinatus 种群。我们可以认为这是一个值得警惕的情况，应通过维持现有的诱捕网络和加强对寄主植物的搜索来进行监测。
