Four invasive alien phytophagous insects new to Armenia
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Four invasive alien phytophagous insects new to Armenia A. I. Gubin
Received: 29 April 2020 / Accepted: 17 September 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract In July 2019 four species of invasive alien phytophagous insects were recorded during the surveys of woody green spaces in Dilijan (Armenia): Cameraria ohridella Deschka et Dimić, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), Obolodiplosis robiniae (Haldeman, 1847) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Prociphilus (Meliarhizophagus) fraxinifolii (Riley, 1879) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and Euura tibialis Newman, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). This is the first record of these species for Armenia, and for the latter two also the first record for Transcaucasia. Keywords Invasive alien species . first records . Phytophagous insects . Armenia . Transcaucasia . Prociphilus fraxinifolii . Cameraria ohridella . Euura tibialis . Obolodiplosis robiniae
Invasive alien species are one of the most important global threats to biodiversity, but in many regions modern research and monitoring of this species is still fragmented or not carried out at all. One such region is Transcaucasia, despite the intense penetration of new species into this territory in recent years (Kalashian et al. 2017; Matsiakh et al. 2018; Gapon 2019). Furthermore, many species of invasive alien phytophagous
A. I. Gubin (*) Donetsk Botanical Garden, Illicha Av. 110, Donetsk 83059, Ukraine e-mail: [email protected]
insects have successfully acclimatised to the southern regions of the Russian Federation (Martynov et al. 2017, Dgebuadze et al. 2018, etc.), and their further spread into Transcaucasia and Armenia is expected. In this note we report the first record of four invasive alien phytophagous insects in Armenia, which have been recorded in Dilijan (Tavush Province) during surveys of urban green spaces in July 2019. All the specimens and samples of damaged leaves from this study are deposited at the Public Institution Donetsk Botanical Garden (Donetsk, Ukraine). Prociphilus (Meliarhizophagus) fraxinifolii (Riley, 1879) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) – woolly ash aphid or ash leaf curl aphid (Fig. 1 a-b). Material examined: Armenia, Tavush, Dilijan, colonies on the leaves of Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall, 1262 m, (40°44′ 22.68”N, 44°51′16.30″E), 21.VII.2019, leg. A. I. Gubin. Nearctic species, widespread in the United States, Canada and Mexico (Smith and Parron 1978). In Europe P. fraxinifolii was first detected in 2003 in Hungary (Remaudière and Ripka 2003), and subsequently was found in other European countries (Chumak et al. 2016; Hałaj and Osiadacz 2017; Seljak 2017). In 2016 woolly ash aphid was recorded in Rostov Oblast of Russia (Martynov and Nikulina 2016) and today it is widespread in central and southern regions of European Russia and Ciscaucasia. Our record is the first for Armenia and Transcaucasia. Prociphilus fraxinifolii is a holocyclic monoecious species trophically associated with North American species of the genus Fraxinus. Outside its native range it
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Fig. 1 New species of invasive
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