EPPO Global Database

Betula sp.(BETSS)

Pests

Organism Type
Acleris senescens (as Betula) (ACLRSE) Host
* Powell JA (1964) Biological and taxonomic studies on tortricine moths, with reference to the species in California. University of California Publications in Entomology 32. 317 pp. 

INTERNET
* Brown JW, Robinson G, Powell JA (2008) Food plant database of the leafrollers of the world (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) (Version 1.0). http://www.tortricid.net/foodplants.asp.

* Gilligan TM, Epstein ME (2014) TortAI. Tortricidae of Agricultural Importance. https://idtools.org/id/leps/tortai/Acleris_senescens.htm

Agrilus anxius (as Betula) (AGRLAX) Host
Anoplophora glabripennis (as Betula) (ANOLGL) Host
* Sjöman H, Östberg J & Nilsson J (2014) Review of host trees for the wood-boring pests Anoplophora glabripennis and Anoplophora chinensis: an urban forest perspective. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 40(3), 143–164.
Choristoneura conflictana (ARCHCO) Host
* Ciesla WM, Kruse JJ (2009) Large aspen tortrix [revised]. USDA Forest Service, Forest Insect & Disease Leaflet 139 (revised), 8 pp.

* Powell JA (1964) Biological and taxonomic studies on tortricine moths, with reference to the species in California. University of California Publications in Entomology 32, 317 pp.
Choristoneura rosaceana (CHONRO) Host
* Ferguson DC (1975) Host records for Lepidoptera reared in eastern North America. USDA Technical Bulletin 1521, 1-49.

* Food Plant Database for the Leafrollers of the World (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). http://www.tortricidae.com/foodplantreferences.asp
------- LACM Index. Records from the card file at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California; transcribed by Gaeden Robinson (BMNH).

* Furniss RL, Carolin VM (1977) Western Forest Insects. USDA , Forest Service Miscellaneous Publication no. 1339, 654 pp.

* Powell JA (1964) Biological and taxonomic studies on tortricine moths, with reference to the species in California. University of California Publications in Entomology 32, 317 pp.

* Schaffner JV Jr (1959) Microlepidoptera and their parasites reared from field collections in northeastern United States. Miscellaneous Publications of USDA No. 767, 97 pp.
Chrysobothris femorata (CHRBFE) Host
* Rudolph EA, Wiman NG (2023) Insights from specimen data for two economic Chrysobothris species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in the western United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (early view). https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saad009
------- Study on museum specimen labels (reared from Betula sp.).
Diabrotica virgifera zeae (as Betula) (DIABVZ) Host
* Clark SM, LeDoux DG, Seeno TN, Riley EG, Gilbert AJ, Sullivan JM (2004) Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication 2, 615 pp.
------- Adult host.
Entoleuca mammata (HYPOMA) Host
* Callan BE (1998) Diseases of Populus in British Columbia: A Diagnostic Manual. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC. 157 pp.

* Granmo A, Læssø T, Schumacher T (1999) The genus Nemania s.l. (Xylariaceae) in Norden. Sommerfeltia 27, 1-96.
------- saprobe. collected on very deteriorated wood

Lepidosaphes ussuriensis (as Betula) (LEPSUS) Host
Leucoptera malifoliella (as Betula) (LEUCSC) Host
* Kirichenko NI, Petko VM, Magnoux E, Lopez-Vaamonde C (2017) Diversity and distribution of leaf mining insects on birches (Betula spp.) in Siberia. Entomological review 97, 183-198.
Malacosoma disstria (as Betula) (MALADI) Host
Oemona hirta (OEMOHI) Host
* Lu W, Wang Q (2005) Systematics of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Oemona Newman with discussion of the taxonomic position of the Australian species, O. simplex White (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae). Zootaxa 971, 1-31.
Operophtera brumata (as Betula) (CHEIBR) Host
Parabemisia myricae (as Betula) (PRABMY) Host
Phytophthora cactorum (as Betula) (PHYTCC) Host
* Shestibratov KA, Baranov OY, Subbotina NM, Lebedev VG, Panteleev SV, Krutovsky KV, Padutov VE (2018) Early Detection and Identification of the Main Fungal Pathogens for Resistance Evaluation of New Genotypes of Forest Trees. Forests 9, 732.
------- confirmed host
Pseudopityophthorus minutissimus (PSDPMI) Host
* Atkinson TH (online) Bark and Ambrosia Beetles. http://www.barkbeetles.info/index.php [last accessed 2021-10] 

* Wood SL & Bright DE (1992) A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), part 2: Taxonomic index. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 13, 1-1553.
------- Rare and apparently not persistent.
Saperda candida (SAPECN) Host
* Vlasak J & Vlasakova K (2002) Records of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) in Massachusetts with notes on larval hosts. The Coleopterists Bulletin 56, 203-219.
Thaumetopoea processionea (as Betula) (THAUPR) Host
* Stigter H, Geraedts WHJM, Spijkers HCP (1997) Thaumetopoea processionea in the Netherlands: Present status and management perspectives (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society (N.E.V.) 3-16. 
------- Occasional larval feeding.
Trichoferus campestris (as Betula) (HESOCA) Host
* CAPS (2019) Trichoferus campestris. Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey pest datasheets. http://download.ceris.purdue.edu/file/3869
------- Dry wood host.

* Iwata R & Yamada F (1990) Notes on the biology of Hesperophanes campestris, a drywood borer in Japan. Material und Organismen 25, 305–313.
------- Dry wood host.

* Lim J, Jung SY, Lim JS, Jang J, Kim KM, Lee YM, Lee BW (2014) A review of host plants of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) with new host records for fourteen Cerambycids, including the Asian longhorn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis Motschulsky), in Korea. Korean Journal of Applied Entomology 53, 111-133.
------- Living host.
Trirachys sartus (AELSSA) Host
Xylosandrus germanus (as Betula) (XYLBGE) Host
Xylotrechus namanganensis (as Betula) (XYLONM) Host
Anoplophora chinensis (as Betula) (ANOLCN) Major host
* Sjöman H, Östberg J & Nilsson J (2014) Review of host trees for the wood-boring pests Anoplophora glabripennis and Anoplophora chinensis: an urban forest perspective. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 40(3), 143–164.
Orgyia leucostigma (as Betula) (HEMELE) Major host
* Dedes J (2014). Whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma). Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Insect Production Services 2 p. https://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/publications?id=35692 

* Wallner WE & McManus KA (1989) Proceedings, Lymantriidae: a comparison of features of New and Old World tussock moths; 1988 June 26-July 1; New Haven, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-123. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 554 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NE-GTR-123

* Webster RL (1916) The white-marked tussock-moth. Circular. Paper 33. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iaes_circulars/39