Entomologia Croatica, Vol. 19 No. 1-2, 2015.
Original scientific paper
THE PRESENCE AND BIONOMY OF A NEWLY DESCRIBED LONGHORN BEETLE, Agapanthia viti (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) IN HUNGARY
Sándor Keszthelyi
; Intitute of Plant Sciences, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary
Dávid Horváth
; Intitute of Plant Sciences, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary
Abstract
Agapanthia viti Rapuzzi and Sama, 2012 is a newly described Central European and North and Central Balkan faunistic element. The presence and the flight phenology of A. viti, associated with cutleaf teasel, Dipsacus laciniatus L., was studied at the Kaposvár-Toponár site (Somogy County, Hungary) during 2012-2013. According to our observation, a stationary population of A. viti was recorded in the examined area. However, its Hungarian occurrence is rather sporadic. The adult stage of the insect is described briefly. Adults appear on leaves of the host from the beginning of May until the middle of June. Its mating activity overlaps with two thirds of the flight period. The appearance of A. viti is strictly associated with D. laciniatus. A. viti observability is influenced by
the intensity of the wind. The infestation levels were determined as 70±15% and 50±8% in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Further colonization in Hungary and increasing expansion in Europe could be assumed from our data.
Keywords
Agapanthia viti; Dipsacus laciniatus; Hungary; flight phenology; abiotic factors
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157833
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Publication date:
18.12.2015.
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