Evolution and Diversity of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles

Kirkendall, Lawrence R.; Biedermann, Peter H. W.; Jordal, Bjarte H.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-417156-5.00003-4

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“…Ambrosia beetles is the common name for the beetle subfamily Platypodinae, which contains more than 1,400 species (Kuschel et al 2000;Oberprieler et al 2007;Kirkendall et al 2015) that cultivate fungi in tunnels excavated in wood. Although Platypodinae was traditionally considered an independent family within Curculionoidea (Wood 1986(Wood , 1993Wood and Bright 1992), it is now considered within the family Curculionidae (Kuschel et al 2000;Oberprieler et al 2007;Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 2009;Bouchard et al 2011;Jordal et al 2011Jordal et al , 2014.…”

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New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications

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Two new species are described from Mexican amber (15-20 Ma): Cenocephalus tenuis Peris and Solórzano Kraemer sp. nov. and Tesserocerus simojovelensis Peris and Solórzano Kraemer sp. nov. Cenocephalus, originally described as living in Central and South America and then as fossils from Early to Middle Miocene amber, is noted as morphologically indistinguishable from Mitosoma, and originally described as endemic from Madagascar. Thus, we consider that a close taxonomic relationship exists, even if they are not the same genus. New evidence of the species already described in Platypodinae (Tesserocerini) from Mexican and Dominican ambers (15-20 Ma) and the differences between those species are discussed, complementing the original descriptions. The paleobiogeography of Cenocephalus and Mitosoma is analyzed, which strongly supports the hypothesis of colonization from Afrotropical Madagascar to America prior to Early to Middle Miocene (15-20 Ma) via sea currents. Hymenaea was interpreted as the Mexican and Dominican resin producers. Based on the analysis of fossil and current distribution of such plants, our hypothesis considers that the beetle dispersion occurred with Hymenaea, which was possibly its host plant.

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New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications

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“…Some studies have revealed division of labour and social structures from subsociality (=parental care) to eusociality (Biedermann and Taborsky ; Kirkendall et al. ). Scolytine beetles breeding on seeds, such as the coffee berry borer (Vega et al.…”

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Artificial diet sandwich reveals subsocial behaviour in the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

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Simpkins

Rodríguez‐Soto

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J Applied Entomology

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An artificial diet sandwich, consisting of coffee berry borer artificial diet within two glass plates, has been developed to elucidate the behaviour of the coffee berry borer, an insect that in nature spends most of its life cycle inside the coffee berry. Various types of behaviour have been observed for the first time, including gallery construction, oviposition, gallery blocking, mating and most remarkably, subsocial tasks such as maternal sanitation and tending of eggs and larvae. This observational technique is a breakthrough for studies and manipulations of the coffee berry borer's social behaviour and could be applicable to other bark beetles, consequently yielding important insights into the origin of parental care in scolytine beetles.

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“…Beauverie (1910) (Musvuugwa et al 2015), but beetle species in this genus are herbiphagous or phloeophagous scolytids (Kirkendall et al 2015) and do not have mycangia (Hulcr et al 2015). Raffaelea deltoideospora (Olchow.…”

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First report of a sexual state in an ambrosia fungus:Ambrosiella cleistominutasp. nov. associated with the ambrosia beetleAnisandrus maiche

Mayers

Harrington

Ranger

2017

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Genera of ambrosia beetles in the tribe Xyleborini with large, mesonotal mycangia host unique fungal symbionts in the genus Ambrosiella. The symbiont of a recent invasive to the USA from Asia, Anisandrus maiche Stark, had not been previously characterized. We found the mycangium anatomy of An. maiche collected in Ohio to be similar to that of Anisandrus dispar and consistently isolated a novel fungus, Ambrosiella cleistominuta sp. nov., from An. maiche mycangia and galleries. The fungus was distinguished from other named Ambrosiella by morphological characters and DNA sequences (ITS rDNA and tef-1α). The mycangial symbionts of ambrosia beetles had been assumed to be strictly asexual, but A. cleistominuta produces cleistothecious ascomata with ascospores in beetle galleries and in culture. In contrast to ascomata of other Ceratocystidaceae, the relatively small ascomata of A. cleistominuta are neckless and without ostioles. The ascospores are relatively large, and single-ascospore colonies produced ascomata and ascospores in culture, showing that A. cleistominuta is homothallic.

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Evolution and Diversity of Bark and Ambrosia Beetles

Cited by 247 publications

References 349 publications

New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications

New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications

Artificial diet sandwich reveals subsocial behaviour in the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

First report of a sexual state in an ambrosia fungus:Ambrosiella cleistominutasp. nov. associated with the ambrosia beetleAnisandrus maiche

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