EPPO Global Database

Polygraphus proximus(POLGPR)

Distribution details in Russia (Eastern Siberia)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2011/216) : introduced in Krasnoyarsk.

EPPO Reporting Service (2019/161) : first found in Irkutsk province in July 2017.

According to Kerchev et al. (2023): following the finding in Irkutsk province made in 2017 (see above) more findings were made in 2021 in the Khamar-Daban mountains (Buryatia). Spread rate was estimated at 13.6 km per year.

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.

* Bystrov SO, Antonov IA (2019) First record of the four-eyed fir bark beetle Polygraphus proximus Blandford, 1894 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) from Irkutsk Province, Russia. Entomological Review 99(1), 54–55.

* 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.

* 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

* Kerchev I, Bykov R, Ilinsky Yu (2023) Expansion of the secondary range of Polygraphus proximus Blandford (Coleoptera; Curculionidae, Scolytinae): invasion of Khamar-Daban mountains (Republic of Buryatia). Acta Biologica Sibirica 9, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v9.e01

* 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
------- Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk.

* 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

* Pavlov IN, Litovka YA, Golubev DV, Astapenko SA, Chromogin PV, Usoltseva YV, Makolova PV, Petrenko SM (2020) Mass reproduction of Polygraphus proximus Blandford in fir forests of Siberia infected with root and stem pathogens: Monitoring, patterns, and biological control. Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal no. 1, 89–106.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
China Present, no details view...
China Jilin Present, no details view...
China Heilongjiang Present, no details view...
Estonia Absent, confirmed by survey view...
Finland Absent, confirmed by survey view...
Kazakhstan Present, few occurrences view...
Korea Dem. People's Republic Present, no details view...