Eur. J. Entomol. 105 (4): 789-792, 2008 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2008.104

Polygraphus grandiclava (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) collected from pine and cherry trees: A phylogenetic analysis

Dimitrios AVTZIS1, Miloš KNÍŽEK2, Klaus HELLRIGL3, Christian STAUFFER1
1 Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology & Forest Protection, Department of Forest and Wood Sciences, Boku, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; e-mail: dimitrios.avtzis@boku.ac.at
2 Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Jíloviště-Strnady, Czech Republic
3 Wolkensteinstraße 83, Brixen, Italy


Polygraphus grandiclava (Thomson, 1886) is a unique scolytid species in that it infests both Pinaceae and Rosaceae. The utilization of such different host trees lead to the designation of two species at the beginning of the last century. Later on, these two species were synonymised. Here we investigated the genetic identity of populations collected from pine and cherry trees by sequencing a partial region of the mitochondrial COI gene. The phylogenetic study presented reveals no indication of host-induced differentiation within the mitochondrial sequences of the populations collected from the two host plants.

Keywords: Scolytinae, Polygraphus grandiclava, host races, speciation, phylogeography

Received: April 22, 2008; Revised: July 10, 2008; Accepted: July 10, 2008; Published: October 24, 2008  Show citation

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AVTZIS, D., KNÍŽEK, M., HELLRIGL, K., & STAUFFER, C. (2008). Polygraphus grandiclava (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) collected from pine and cherry trees: A phylogenetic analysis. EJE, 105(4), 789-792. doi: 10.14411/eje.2008.104
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