Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852)

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

Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 898AAD92-D272-5BC8-8BBB-06C6C605BECA; Taxon: scientificName: Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852); family: Cerambycidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardy; municipality: Roe Volciano ; locality: Tormini ; decimalLatitude: 45.607926; decimalLongitude: 10.4682366; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2023-07-02 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: 932B446C-0D4C-545A-9CE6-6AAB60E5ED00; Taxon: scientificName: Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852); family: Cerambycidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardy; municipality: Prevalle ; decimalLatitude: 45.553290; decimalLongitude: 10.422359; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2023-06- 10 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; occurrenceID: BE3DA5D1-FF92-5169-B3A6-637BD4D2F519; Taxon: scientificName: Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852); family: Cerambycidae ; Location : country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Lombardy; municipality: Muscoline ; decimalLatitude: 45.572222; decimalLongitude: 10.482320; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification : identifiedBy: Enrico Ruzzier ; Event : eventDate: 2023-06-23

Distribution

Species native to East Asia, introduced in Europe ( Leivadara et al. 2018, Sarto i Monteys and Torras i Tutusaus 2018, Cocquempot et al. 2019); new species for the Italian fauna.

Notes

In Europe, Xylotrechus chinensis was first officially reported in 2013 in Catalonia ( Sarto i Monteys and Torras i Tutusaus 2018) and subsequently was observed to be established also in Greece ( Leivadara et al. 2018) and France ( Cocquempot et al. 2019). The three records here presented and observed in the Province of Brescia (Lombardy) indicate the first record of X. chinensis in Italy. The species was promptly notified to the Regional Plant Health Service (Regione Lombardia Plant Health Service) and to the European Commission (Europhyt Outbreak No. 2250). Several records of exit holes and adults on plants of Morus sp. clearly indicate the establishment of X. chinensis on the Italian territory. There are currently no signs of attack on the other host plants known from literature ( Han and Lyu 2010) and present in the Italian invaded area, such as Malus spp., Pyrus spp. and Vitis vinifera L. (Europhyt Outbreak No. 2250).