EPPO Global Database

Polygraphus proximus(POLGPR)

Distribution details in Russia (Western Siberia)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Present, no details
First recorded in: 1990s
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2011/216) : introduced in Kemerovo in the mid 1990s, and in Tomsk in 2008.

EPPO Reporting Service (2013/087) : also in Altai.

Also detected in Altai republic (2011), Altai krai (2011/2012) and Novosibirsk (2012) (EPPO, 2014).
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.

* Baranchikov Y, Pashenova N, Petko V (2012) United they stand: invasive association of four-eyed fir bark beetle and ophiostomal fungus destroy fir taiga forest in Siberia. Abstract of a paper presented at the 3rd meeting of IUFRO Working Unit 7.03.12 ‘Alien invasive species and international trade’ (Tokyo, JP, 2012-06-10/16)
http://hyoka.nenv.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/alien2012/alien_abst/o04.pdf (abst.)
http://hyoka.nenv.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/alien2012/alien_report/O04_Baranchikov.pdf (presentation)

* 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.

* Debkov NM, Aleinikov AA, GradelA , Bocharov AY, Klimova NV, Pudzha GI(2019) Impacts of the invasive four-eyed fir bark beetle (Polygraphus Proximus Blandf.) on Siberian fir (Abies sibirica Ledeb.) forests in Southern Siberia. Geography, Environment, Sustainability 12(3), 79-97.
------- Tomsk region.

* 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

* 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
------- Altai Republic, Altai Territory, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Novosibirsk, Tomsk.

* 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...