Orthotomicus erosus Wollaston 1857
Description
Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston, 1857)
Distribution in Iran. Fars, West Azarbaijan, northern provinces (Modarres Awal 1997), Guilan (Borumand 1998; Amini et al. 2013), Tehran (Borumand 1998), Iran (no locality cited) (Mifsud & Knižek 2009).
General distribution. Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China. Introduced into Chile, Uruguay and South Africa.
Biology. The species breeds in Pinus (Pinaceae), but maturation feeding can also occur on Cupressus (Cupressaceae) (Mendel & Halperin 1982). Recorded in Iran from Pinus sp. (Pinaceae) (Modarres Awal 1997; Amini et al. 2013), and Cupressus sempervirens var. horizontalis (Cupressaceae) (Modarres Awal 1997). The biology, behaviour and seasonal history have been studied by Mendel and colleagues (Mendel & Halperin 1982; Mendel 1983a; Mendel et al. 1991) in Israel, and Tribe (1990b, 1992) in South Africa. Various aspects of host selection behaviour are discussed by Walter et al. (2010a, b). The interactions between the species and other scolytines attacking pine have been studied by Amezaga and Rodríguez (1998). The species, like other Orthotomicus species found in Iran, normally attacks weakened or dead trees, but primary attacks on apparently healthy trees can occur following fires, or when populations build up in dead host trees left in situ in the forest (Serez 1987; Paiva 1995).
Comments. Bracon (Glabrobracon) praetermisus Marshall, 1885 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was collected from Guilan (northern Iran) by Ghahari et al. (2012). Since it is a parasitoid of Orthotomicus erosus (Beyarslan et al. 2005) and O. erosus is a dominant species in northern Iran (Modarres Awal 1997; Borumand 1998), its role as a natural enemy should be investigated.
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Published as part of Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4098 (3) on pages 412-413, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258895Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Orthotomicus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wollaston
- Species
- erosus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orthotomicus erosus Wollaston, 1857 sec. Beaver, Ghahari & Sanguansub, 2016
References
- Modarres Awal, M. (1997) Platypodidae, Scolytidae. In: Modarres Awal, M. (Ed.), List of agricultural pests and their natural enemies in Iran. Ferdowsi University Press, Mashhad, pp. 185, 192 - 194.
- Borumand, H. (1998) Insects of Iran: the list of coleoptera in the insect collection of Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute: Coleoptera (XXIV), Curculionoidea, Fam. 162, 166 - 171 (Anthribidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae, Scolytidae, Platypodidae. Plants Pests and Diseases Research Institute, Tehran, 110 pp.
- Amini, S., Hosseini, R. & Sohani, M. M. (2013) A faunal study of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Guilan province in North of Iran. Entomofauna, 34, 169 - 176.
- Mifsud, D. & Knizek, M. (2009) The bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean). Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 2, 25 - 52.
- Mendel, Z. & Halperin, J. (1982) The biology and behavior of Orthotomicus erosus in Israel. Phytoparasitica, 10, 169 - 181. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02994526
- Mendel, Z. (1983 a) Seasonal history of Orthotomicus erosus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Israel. Phytoparasitica, 11, 13 - 24. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02980707
- Mendel, Z., Boneh, O., Shenhar, Y. & Riov, J. (1991) Diurnal flight patterns of Orthotomicus erosus and Pityogenes calcaratus in Israel. Phytoparasitica, 19, 23 - 31. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02981008
- Tribe, G. D. (1990 b) Phenology of Pinus radiata log colonization and reproduction by the European bark beetle Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in the south-western Cape province. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 53, 117 - 126.
- Tribe, G. D. (1992) Colonization sites on Pinus radiata logs of the bark beetles, Orthotomicus erosus, Hylastes angustatus and Hylurgus ligniperda (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 55, 77 - 84.
- Walter, A. J., Kells, S. A., Venette, R. C. & Seybold, S. J. (2010 a) Boring in response to bark and phloem extracts from North American trees does not explain host acceptance behavior of Orthotomicus erosus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Environmental Entomology, 39, 661 - 669. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1603 / EN 09320
- Walter, A. J., Venette, R. C., Kells, S. A. & Seybold, S. J. (2010 b) Walking response of the Mediterranean pine engraver, Orthotomicus erosus, to novel plant odors in a laboratory olfactometer. Journal of Insect Behavior, 23, 251 - 267. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10905 - 010 - 9211 - 2
- Amezaga, I. & Rodriguez, M .. (1998) Resource partitioning of four sympatric bark beetles depending on swarming dates and tree species. Forest Ecology and Management, 109, 127 - 135. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0378 - 1127 (98) 00229 - 1
- Serez, M. (1987) Verwendung des Aggregationspheromon-Praparats " Ipslure " gegen den mediterranean Kiefernborkenkafer, Ips (Orthotomicus) erosus (Woll.) (Col. Scolytidae). Anzeiger fur Schadlingskunde, Pflanzenschutz, Umweltschutz, 60, 94 - 95.
- Paiva, M. R. (1995) Population trends and olfactory responses of scolytid species and their predators on Pinus pinaster Ait. in Portugal. In: Hain, F. P., Salom, S. M., Ravlin, W. F., Payne, T. L. & Raffa, K. F. (Eds.), Behavior, Population Dynamics and Control of Forest Insects. Ohio State University, Wooster, pp. 45 - 58.
- Beyarslan, A., Cetin Erdogan, O. & Aydogdu, M. (2005) A survey of Braconinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of Turkish Western Black Sea Region. Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 37, 195 - 213.