Shimada Megumi, Watanabe Hiroki, Komine Yukio, Kigawa Rika, Sato Yoshinori
Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Tokyo Japan.
Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Kyushu National Museum Fukuoka Japan.
Biodivers Data J. 2022 Nov 3;10:e90799. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90799. eCollection 2022.
Silverfish are known as one of the major pests which feed on paper and starch-based materials and can cause serious problems in museums, libraries and archives. (Ritter, 1910) was first recorded from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and has also been known from Central American countries including Guyana and Cuba. Recently, its rapid spread to European countries, including Austria, Czech, Germany and Norway, has been reported. In addition, there are unverified records of from 17 more countries in the on-line citizen-science platforms iNaturalist.
We report in Japan for the first time, from Hokkaido, Miyagi, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagasaki Prefectures. The specimens in Japan were observed in detail by stereomicroscope, optical microscope and scanning electron microscope. The occurrence of this species is a serious problem from the viewpoint of protection of cultural properties. We also registered their mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene in EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ.
衣鱼是已知的主要害虫之一,以纸张和淀粉基材料为食,会在博物馆、图书馆和档案馆引发严重问题。(里特,1910年)首次记录于锡兰(现斯里兰卡),在包括圭亚那和古巴在内的中美洲国家也有发现。最近,有报道称它已迅速传播到包括奥地利、捷克、德国和挪威在内的欧洲国家。此外,在线公民科学平台iNaturalist上还有来自另外17个国家的未经证实的记录。
我们首次在日本北海道、宫城、东京、福冈和长崎县发现了衣鱼。使用体视显微镜、光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜对日本的标本进行了详细观察。从文化财产保护的角度来看,该物种的出现是一个严重问题。我们还将它们的线粒体细胞色素氧化酶I(COI)基因注册到了EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ中。