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Small Spruce Bark Beetle Ips amitinus (Eichhoff, 1872) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae): a New Alien Species in West Siberia

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The small spruce bark beetle Ips amitinus is a widespread species in many European countries that has been actively spreading into Northern Europe in the recent decades. In Russia, I. amitinus is present in the western, northwestern, and northern regions of the European part, with a tendency for range expansion. The species was first recognized in West Siberia in 2019 by characteristic morphological features and molecular genetic analysis. This bark beetle is abundant on Pinus sibirica in Siberian pine forests located near settlements within Tomsk and Kemerovo provinces, and is also sporadically found on the Siberian spruce Picea obovata. It colonizes the upper trunk and branches of standing and windfall trees. In the outbreak foci this bark beetle causes catastrophic drying of Siberian pines, starting from the crown top. This pattern of tree drying was noted for the first time near settlements in Yashkinsky District of Kemerovo Province in 2014, and now outbreak foci of I. amitinus exist in all the Siberian pine forests in this district. The population growth of I. amitinus was probably facilitated by dry and hot summer weather in the southeast of West Siberia during the last decade, in 2011 and 2012, and also by heavy winter snowfalls leaving numerous snapped tree branches which are easily colonized by the pest. In Tomsk Province, the most active outbreak focus of I. amitinus appeared in 2018 in the Siberian pine forest near Luchanovo and Ipatovo, following an outbreak of the Siberian moth Dendrolimus sibiricus. The invasion of I. amitinus in Siberia may increase the degradation rates not only of the gene-reserve Siberian pine forests but also of other dark coniferous stands.

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Acknowledgments

We thank our colleagues from Tomsk Forestry (Forestry Department of Tomsk Province), Tomsk Branch of the All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine, Tomsk Forest Protection Center, and also S.N. Skorokhodov (Laboratory of Ecosystem Dynamics and Stability, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems) for help with material collection.

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This paper was prepared using the resources of the Shared Equipment Center of St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University “Renewable resources, energy sources, new materials and biotechnologies (SPbFTU)” (project 2019-0420). The work of M.Yu. Mandelshtam was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 17-04-00360a).

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  1. Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, 634055, Russia

    I. A. Kerchev & S. A. Krivets

  2. St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    M. Yu. Mandelshtam

  3. Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Yu. Yu. Ilinsky

  4. All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine, Bykovo, Moscow Province, 140150, Russia

    Yu. Yu. Ilinsky

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 592–599.

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Kerchev, I.A., Mandelshtam, M.Y., Krivets, S.A. et al. Small Spruce Bark Beetle Ips amitinus (Eichhoff, 1872) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae): a New Alien Species in West Siberia. Entmol. Rev. 99, 639–644 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819050075

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