Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus Planipennis Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
THE USE OF CLASSICAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TO PRESERVE FORESTS IN NORTH AMERICA XVII Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Leah S. Bauer1, Jian J. Duan2, and Juli R. Gould3 1USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823, USA 2USDA Agriculture Research Service, Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Unit, Newark, Delaware, 19713, USA 3USDA APHIS PPQ, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, 02542, USA In the Palearctic region, species in this genus are DESCRIPTION OF PEST grouped into 36 subgenera and 34 informal species-groups based on morphological characters of adults (Chamorro Taxonomy et al., 2012). On this basis, A. planipennis was placed in the Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888 (type locality: China) is subgenus Uragrilus Semenov (Alexeev, 1998). However, considered the senior synonym to A. marcopoli Obenberger, more recent analyses using adult and larval characters 1930 (type locality: China), A. marcopoli ulmi Kurosawa, 1956 suggest A. planipennis be moved to the Agrilus cyaneoniger (type locality: Japan), and A. feretrius Obenberger, 1936 (type species-group (Jendek and Grebennikov, 2011; Volkovitsh locality: Taiwan) by Jendek (1994) in a revision of Eastern and Hawkeswood, 1990). Palearctic Agrilus species. Agrilus is the largest genus in the family Buprestidae Distribution with ~2,800 described species worldwide (Bellamy, 2008). Countries in Asia where A. planipennis is reported include Adults of this genus are flashy, metallic-colored beetles, China, Korea, Russian Far East, Japan, Taiwan, Laos, and frequently collected using nets or traps (Fig. 1). However, Mongolia (Ko, 1969; Kurosawa et al., 1956, 1985; Chinese Academy of Science, 1986; Yu, 1992; Akiyama and Ohmomo, 1997; Mühle, 2003; Wei et al., 2004; Fukutomi and Hori, 2004; Jendek and Grebennikov, 2011).
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