34.01. Ambrosiophilus atratus (Eichhof, 1976)
Presence
E: IT SL*
A: FUJ JA NC SC SHX TAI
NAR
Older catalogs and keys – citations of name
Löbl, Smetana 2011; Rabaglia s sod. 2006.
Figure 167: Ambrosiophilus atratus, distribution map according to hostorical and recent data
Ecology and presence in Slovenia
A non-native species native to East Asia, it is distributed in Europe (Italy, Slovenia), Asia (Japan, North Korea, South Korea, China) and the Nearctic. In Slovenia, the only known site is Most na Soči, where the species was found in an ethanol trap during monitoring of non-native bark beetles in 2018 (Figure 167). Xylomycetophagous species, polyphagous on deciduous trees and less frequently on conifers (Pinaceae). It attacks thinner trunks, the tunnel system consists of an borehole which then repeatedly branches into short galleries. Body length (adultus) is 3.3-3.5 mm, the body is shiny, dark brown, the elytra are distinctly punctated to the end of the elytra apex. In shape and size it resembles Anisandrus dispar (Figure 168).