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Xylosandrus germanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Xylosandrus
Species:
X. germanus
Binomial name
Xylosandrus germanus
(Blandford, 1894)

Xylosandrus germanus, known generally as the alnus ambrosia beetle or black stem borer, is a species of ambrosia beetle in the family Curculionidae.[1][2][3][4] The black stem borer is native to eastern Asia, but is an invasive species in Europe and North America.[5] It carries an associated ambrosia fungus, Ambrosiella grosmanniae.[6]

Alnus ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus germanus

References

  1. ^ "Xylosandrus germanus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. ^ "Xylosandrus germanus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  3. ^ "Xylosandrus germanus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. ^ "Xylosandrus germanus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ^ Inward, Daegan (2015). "Rapid Pest Risk Analysis for Xylosandrus germanus (Coleoptera: Scolytinae)". Forest Research. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  6. ^ Mayers, Chase G.; McNew, Douglas L.; Harrington, Thomas C.; Roeper, Richard A.; Fraedrich, Stephen W.; Biedermann, Peter H. W.; Castrillo, Louela A.; Reed, Sharon E. (1 November 2015). "Three genera in the Ceratocystidaceae are the respective symbionts of three independent lineages of ambrosia beetles with large, complex mycangia". Fungal Biology. 119 (11): 1075–1092. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2015.08.002. ISSN 1878-6146. PMID 26466881.

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26093-1.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-25916-4.

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