EPPO Global Database

Gilpinia hercyniae(GILPPO)

Distribution details in United States of America

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2016: Present, restricted distribution
From CABI Pest map 035 (1953): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
From NAPPO (1993): north-east.

From Looney et al. (2016) first detected in New Hampshire in 1929. It quickly became a forest pest in the eastern USA and Canada, but populations could be reduced by biological control programs during the 1930s and the inadvertent introduction of a nuclear plyhedrosis virus. The species has not been an active management concern in North America for many decades.
References
* Dowden PB (1939) Present status of the European Spruce Sawfly, Diprion polytomum (Htg.), in the United States. Journal of Economic Entomology 32, 619-624.

* Haack RA, Mattson WJ (1993) Life history patterns of North American tree-feeding sawflies. In: Wagner MR, Raffa KF (eds) Sawfly life history adaptations to woody plants. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, USA, pp 503-545.

* Looney C, Smith DR, Collman SJ, Langor DW, Peterson MA (2016) Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) newly recorded from Washington State. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 49, 129–159. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.49.7104

* MacAloney HJ (1936) The European spruce sawfly in the USA. Journal of Forestry, 125-129.

* NAPPO (1993).
------- Present, restricted distribution.

* Van Driesche RG, LaForest JH, Bargeron CT, Reardon RC, and Herlihy M (2013) Forest pest insects in North America: a photographic guide. USDA Forest Service Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team FHTET-2012-02, 702 pp.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Canada Manitoba Present, no details view...
Canada Newfoundland Present, no details view...
Canada Ontario Present, no details view...
Canada New Brunswick Present, no details view...
Canada Nova Scotia Present, no details view...
Canada Québec Present, no details view...
Canada Present, restricted distribution view...
Canada Prince Edward Island Present, no details view...