Woolly Ash Aphid Prociphilus fraxinifolii, a New Alien Pest of Ash in Russia
Abstract
Woolly ash aphid or ash leaf curl aphid Prociphilus fraxinifolii is an alien invasive pest of ash native to North America. After its first record in Europe in 2003 in Hungary it has spread to the Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Spain, Poland and Germany. In 2016 P. fraxinifolii was recorded at the southwestern border of Russia. Here we report the first found of P. fraxinifolii in the center of European Russia, namely in Moscow, which is more than 700 km far from all other known localities of the species. In September 2017 five groups of trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) with colonies of P. fraxinifolii were found. This record indicates that the pest continues to spread quickly and can appear in other regions of European Russia and neighboring countries soon. Now Moscow is the only region, where the expanding range of Prociphilus fraxinifolii has overlapped with expanding ranges of other invasive alien species severely damaging ashes: ash dieback fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (Ascomycota) and emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae).
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Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. 2014. Ashes in Europe are in danger: the invasive range of Agrilus planipennis in European Russia is expanding. Biological Invasions 16: 1345–1349, DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0579-8.
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Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. 2017. Main Trends of Invasion Processes in Beetles (Coleoptera) of European Russia. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions 8(2): 143–157, DOI: 10.1134/S2075111717020060.
Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. and Belokobylskij, S.A. 2014. Discovery of the first European parasitoid of the emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). European Journal of Entomology 111(4): 594–596, DOI: 10.14411/eje.2014.061.
Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J., Bieńkowski, A.O. 2016. The life cycle of the emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis in European Russia and comparisons with its life cycles in Asia and North America. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 18(2): 182–188, DOI: 10.1111/afe.12140.
Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M.J. and Volkovitsh, M.G. 2014. Range expansion of Agrilus convexicollis in European Russia expedited by the invasion of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Biological Invasions 17(2): 537–544, DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0762-6.
Pérez Hidalgo, N. and Mier Durante, M.P. 2012. First record of Prociphilus (Meliarhizophagus) fraxinifolii (Riley) [Hemiptera: Aphididae] in the Iberian Peninsula. EPPO Bulletin 42 (1): 142–145, DOI: 10.1111/epp.2531.
Remaudiere, G. and Ripka, G. 2003. Arrivée en Europe (Budapest, Hongrie) du puceron des frenes américains, Prociphilus (Meliarhizophagus) fraxinifolii (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Eriosomatinae, Pemphigini). [Arrival in Europe (Budapest, Hungary) of American aphid, Prociphilus (Meliarhizophagus) fraxinifolii (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Eriosomatinae, Pemphigini).] Revue française d'entomologie, 25(3): 152 (in French).
Selikhovkin, A.V., Popovichev, B.G., Mandelshtam, M.Yu., Vasaitis, R. and Musolin, D.L. 2017. The Frontline of Invasion: the Current Northern Limit of the Invasive Range of Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), in European Russia. Baltic Forestry 23(1): 309-315.
Shankhiza, E.V. 2007. Шанхиза Е.В. Инвазия узкотелой златки Agrilus planipennis в Московском регионе [Invasion of the emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis to Moscow Region.] – URL: https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/fraxxx.htm (accessed 17 September, 2017) (in Russian).
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Torres-Acosta, R.I. and Sánchez-Peña, S.R. 2015. Regional concurrent outbreaks of ash leaf curl aphid, Prociphilus fraxinifolii (Riley) (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Eriosomatinae), and the invasive predator, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Cocinellidae), in Northeastern Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist 40(3): 661–664.
Published
2019-12-03
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Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M. J. (2019). Woolly Ash Aphid Prociphilus fraxinifolii, a New Alien Pest of Ash in Russia. Baltic Forestry, 24(2). Retrieved from https://balticforestryojs.lammc.lt/ojs/index.php/BF/article/view/207
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