part of the Research Program “The Key Techniques for Control Pine Wood Nematod”;“Fundamental Research Funds of Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAFYBB2021ZG001)” for supporting the present study;supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32370494):Taxonomic study of braconids parasitizing important cerambycids and screening of excellent natural enemies.
A new species,Sclerodermus alternatusi Yang,sp.nov.(Hymenoptera:Bethylidae),is described and illustrated.Its cerambycid host,Monochamus alternatus Hope,a severe wood borer attacking many pine trees(Pinus spp.),is also...
The cashew stem girdler, Analeptes trifasciata Fabricius (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), damages cashew by its girdling activities in the stem thereby causing huge economic losses. The stem girdler is managed through cult...
supported by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of Beijing,the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006).
Four species of the tribe Mesosini Mulsant,1839 are recorded from Beijing,the capital of the People's Republic of China:Agelasta(Mesolophus)marmorata(Pic,1927),Mesosa(Perimesosa)atrostigma Gressitt,1942,M.(P.)hyunchae...
The genus Falsomesosella Pic,1925 currently includes two subgenera,with 36 species/subspecies described in the nominate subgenus(Tavakilian&Chevillotte,2021).Among them,10 species were recorded from China(Lin&Tavakili...
This study was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFD0600104);the Shenyang Science and Technology Planning Project(18-400-3-03).
Pine wilt disease was first discovered in Dongtang town,Liaoning Province,China,in 2017.Monochamus saltuarius Gebler is a new vector of pinewood nematode and the only known vector in Liaoning Province.The biology of t...
supported by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of Beijing from the Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau;the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(2019HJ2096001006);partly by Project of Biological Resources Survey in Wuyishan National Park;a grant(Y229YX5105)from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences。
Ten species of the genus Xylotrechus Chevrolat,1860 from Beijing are studied.Xylotrechus pekingensis Pic,1939 is reinstated from synonym of Xylotrechus yanoi Gressitt,1934,and newly recorded from Hebei and Shaanxi Pro...
We thank Giovanna Squaquara,Martina Bon,Filippo Rigodanza,Jacopo Richard,Cory Hughes and Kate Van Rooyen for technical assistance in the field and laboratory;Chantelle Kostanowicz,Vincent Webster,and Reginald Webster for expertise in beetle species identification;Joe Francese and Troy Kimoto for advice;“Veneto Agricoltura”for allowing us to carry out the trapping experiment at Bosco Nordio;three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.In addition,we thank Natural Resources Canada,Canadian Forest Service,United States Department of Agriculture,Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service(grant 15-8130-0395-CA and 17-8130-0395-CA)and the University of Padova for financial support(DOR).
Longhorn beetles are among the most important groups of invasive forest in-sects worldwide.In parallel,they represent one of the most well-studied insect groups interms of chemical ecology.Longhorn beetle aggregation-...
supported by Research Project of Jiangxi Forestry Bureau(No.201910);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31760106)。
[Objective]Both fire and insect outbreaks are considered as important natural disturbance factors in many forest ecosystems,yet few studies have addressed the effects of fires on subsequent insect outbreaks.[Method]In...
supported by a special fiscal fund from the Department of Forestry of Zhejiang Province for“Fauna and information management of insect resources in Zhejiang Province”;by NSFC programs 31472029(Meiying LIN)and J1210002;the China Scholarship Council(201704910195);partly by a grant(Y229YX5105)from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences。
This paper deals with the genera Anaesthetobrium Pic,1923 and Microestola Gressitt,1940 belonging to the tribe Desmiphorini.Microestola Gressitt,1940 is reinstated from synonyms of Cylindilla Bates,1884.Two new synony...