Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835)

Ruzzier, Enrico, Morin, Lucio, Zugno, Matteo, Tapparo, Andrea, Bani, Luciano & Di Giulio, Andrea, 2023, New records of non-native Coleoptera in Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 111487-111487 : 111487

Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: F3CD819B-D612-5D95-BAE2-0F92550A96FD; Taxon: scientificName: Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835); family: Cerambycidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Veneto; locality: Saonara ; decimalLatitude: 45.394167; decimalLongitude: 12.007500; geodeticDatum: WGS8; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2018-07-03

Distribution

Species of Eastern Palearctic origin, introduced in Europe and North America ( Danilevsky 2020, Cocquempot et al. 2022).

Notes

In Italy, Trichoferus campestris was first detected in Piacenza in 2000 ( Cocquempot et al. 2022) and subsequently intercepted in Naples in 2015 ( Pennacchio et al. 2016), recorded in Veneto (2018, this paper) and recently observed in Lombardy in 2020 ( Cocquempot et al. 2022, source INaturalist). It would seem that all the specimens observed belong to single introductions and that, currently, no established populations exist on the Italian territory. However, this situation requires further investigation given the phytosanitary relevance of the species ( Allen and Humble 2002, EFSA Panel on Plant Health et al. 2021).