First record, new cultivated host and host plant preference of the invasive oak lace bug (Corythucha arcuata Say, 1832) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) in Transcarpathia (West Ukraine)

By

Nagy, Antal
Szanyi, Kálmán
Szalárdi, Tímea
Szanyi, Szabolcs

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-12-21

Original Publication

Silva Balcanica

Volume

22

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

41--48

Subjects

hardwood forests , host plant preference , invasion , spread

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Forest Research Institute - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (FRI-BAS) [2001]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/silvabalcanica.22.e76231

 

Abstract

Oak lace bug (Corythucha arcuata) has continuously spread through Europe since its appearance in 2000, and it has become a dangerous pest of Quercus species in most countries. Despite of its high abundance in the surrounding countries it was found in West Ukraine only in 2020. During our investigation carried out in 2020 OLB was detected in all studied large forest patches of the Ukrainian part of the Carpathian Lowland. These were one of the newest distribution data from Ukraine after its appearance in the far coast of Black See near Yalta (South Ukraine). OLB most live on Q. robur and Q. petraea but in an orchard located near an infested forest patch we found infested sweet cherry (P. avium) trees, which is a new, formerly not mentioned cultivated host of the pest.