EPPO Global Database

Ips amitinus(IPSXAM)

Distribution details in Russia

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1920s
From NPPO: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (1994/235) : Kaliningrad province only (Central Russia).

EPPO Reporting Service (2002/018) : also Leningrad province (Central Russia).

EPPO Reporting Service (2009/021) : occurs in Central Russia (Bryansk, Leningrad, Novgorod) and Northern Russia (Karelia, Murmansk).

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/067) : spreading northward (it has reached the north of the Kola Peninsula and the Arkhangelsk province). In addition, it was found in Western Siberia (Keremovo and Tomsk) in 2019, mainly on Pinus sibirica and sporadically on Picea obovata.

EPPO Reporting Service (2022/096) : spreading eastward in Western Siberia. In 2020, the pest was found covering an area of more than 30 000 km² in in Tomsk, Kemerovo, and Novosibirsk oblasts (mainly on Pinus sibirica).

From Musolin et al. (2022): first recorded in the Briansk oblast in 1920. Present in Leningrad oblast, Karelia, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk (Northern European Russia), and Tomsk (Wetsern Siberia).
References
* INTERNET (last retrieved 2008-03)
Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia. Beetles (Coleoptera) and Coleopterists. Two new bark beetles (Scolytidae) pests in fauna of Russia by Michail Mandelshtam, 2001-10-12. http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/sl_pest2.htm

* Kerchev IA, Mandelshtam MY, Krivets SA, Ilinsky YY (2019) Small spruce bark beetle Ips amitinus (Eichhoff, 1872) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae): a new alien species in West Siberia. Entomological Review 99, 639–644. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819050075
------- Western Siberia.

* Kerchev IA, Krivets SA, Bisirova EM, Smirnov NA (2022) Distribution of the small spruce bark beetle Ips amitinus (Eichhoff, 1872) in Western Siberia. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions 13(1), 58–63. https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111722010076
------- Eastward spread in Western Siberia.

* Legalov AA (2022) A checklist of bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae) from Siberia and the Russian Far East. Acta Biologica Sibirica 8, 623-646. https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v8.e39
------- Kemerovo, Tomsk (Western Siberia).

* Musolin DL, Kirichenko NI, Karpun NN, Aksenenko EV, Golub VB, Kerchev IA, Mandelshtam MY, Vasaitis R, Volkovitsh MG, Zhuravleva EN, Selikhovkin AV (2022) Invasive insect pests of forests and urban trees in Russia: origin, pathways, damage, and management. Forests 13(4), 521. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13040521

* Økland B, Flø D, Schroeder M, Zach P, Cocos D, Martikainen P, Siitonen J, Mandelshtam MY, Musolin D, Neuvonen S, Vakula J, Nikolov C, Lindelöw A, Voolma K (2019) Range expansion of the small spruce bark beetle Ips amitinus: a newcomer in northern Europe. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 13 pp. DOI: 10.1111/afe.12331
------- Central Russia (Leningrad, Novgorod), Northern Russia (Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Murmansk).

* Review of Agricultural Entomology, 89(7), p 780 (5737).

* Voolma K et al. (2004) Distribution and spread of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) around the Gulf of Finland: a comparative study with notes on rare species of Estonia, Finland and North-Western Russia. Entomologica Fennica 15, 198-210.
------- Central Russia (St. Petersburg), Northern Russia (Karelyia, Murmansk).
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Estonia Present, restricted distribution view...
Finland Present, widespread view...
Latvia Present, no details view...
Poland Present, widespread view...
Ukraine Present, restricted distribution view...