EPPO Global Database

Polygraphus proximus(POLGPR)

Distribution details in Russia (Central Russia)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1990s
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2011/216) : introduced in the Leningrad region in 1999, and in the Moscow region in 2006.

In the Leningrad region, only one specimen of P. proximus was detected in 1999 on a Picea abies tree, the pest is not considered established in this area. In addition, A. sibirica artificial stands in parks in St. Petersburg and its surroundings have been monitored since the 2000s and no bark-beetle damage has been found (EPPO, 2014).

EPPO Reporting Service (2021/173) : found for the first time in Udmurtia in 2019 (districts of Zavyalovsky, Malopurginsky, Kiyasovsky and Sarapulsky).
References
* Akulov EN, Kulinich OA, Ponomarev VL (2011) Polygraphus proximus – new invasive pest of Russian coniferous forests. Zashita i Karantin Rastenii no 7, p 34-35.

* Chilakhsaeva EA (2008) First record of Polygraphus proximus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in Moscow province. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists 113(6), 39-42.

* Chilahsaeva EA (2010) Genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera, Scolytidae): species of Moscow region fauna survey. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists 115(3), 48-50.

* Dedyukhin SV, Titova VV (2021) [Finding of the bark beetle Polygraphus proximus Blandford, 1894 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Udmurtia]. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions no. 2, 32-39 (in Russian).

* EPPO (2014) Pest Risk Analysis for Polygraphus proximus. EPPO, Paris, 91 pp.

* Gninenko YI, Cheelakhsaeva EA, Klukin MS (2010) New risk for European forests - ussuryjsky bark beetle Polygraphus proximus. Proceedings of the first Serbian forestry Congress - Future with Forests (Belgrade, SR, 2010-11-11/13), pp 171–172.

* INTERNET:
- Baranchikov Y, Akulov E, Astapenko S (2010) Bark beetle Polygraphus proximus: a new aggressive far eastern invader on Abies species in Siberia and European Russia. USDA Research Forum on Invasive Species GTR-NRS-P-75 http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/37559
- Chilahsaeva EA (2011) List of bark beetles (Scolytidae) of some regions of the European part of Russia. Polygraphus proximus Blandford, 1894 (Scolytidae) http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/polpro__.htm

* Mandelshtam MY, Popovichev BG (2000) Annotated List of Bark-Beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) of Leningrad Province. Entomological Review 80(8), 200-216. (Translated from Entomologicheskoye Obozrenye 79(3), 599-618, English translation is available as preprint).(Abstract only)

* 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
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
China Heilongjiang Present, no details view...
China Jilin Present, no details view...
China Present, no details view...
Estonia Absent, confirmed by survey view...
Finland Absent, confirmed by survey view...
Kazakhstan Absent, unreliable record view...
Korea Dem. People's Republic Present, no details view...