EPPO Global Database

Agrilus bilineatus(AGRLBL)

Distribution details in Türkiye

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2018: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2013
Comments
Found in different locations around Istanbul:
- Single record (one specimen) from Anatolian Part (Asia Minor) of Turkey in 2002 (Jendek, 2016).
- One specimen found during a faunistic survey in in the European part of Istanbul in 2013 and again in 2016 (Hızal & Arslangündoğdu, 2018)
References
* Jendek E (2016) Taxonomic, nomenclatural, distributional and biological study of the genus Agrilus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 4(2), 1–57. https://doi.org/10.12976/jib/2016.4.2
------- Single finding in a city east of Istanbul

* Hızal E & Arslangündoğdu Z (2018) The first record of two-lined chestnut borer Agrilus bilineatus (Weber , 1801) (Coleoptera : Buprestidae) from Europe. Entomological News, 127(4), 333–335.
------- First record in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey