First records of the weevil Otiorhynchus smreczynskii Cmoluch, 1968 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Entiminae) in the Republic of Belarus

Developmental Biology and Identification of a Garden Pest, Otiorhynchus (Podoropelmus) smreczynskii Cmoluch, 1968 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae), with Comments on Its Origin and Distribution

“…In view of ongoing introductions, however, it is well to bear in mind that further southeast European species of the subgenus Podoropelmus and the related subgenus Melasemnus can produce similar feeding signs, e.g., O. albidus Stierlin, 1861, found in St. Petersburg, and O. ukrainicus Korotyaev, 1984, closely related to O. smreczynskii, even if present on Oleaceae (see [8,[41][42][43]). Sautkin and Meleshko [44] are mistaken if they consider that the feeding signs of Dodecastichus inflatus (Gyllenhal, 1834), Otiorhynchus meridionalis Gyllenhal, 1834 and O. hungaricus Germar, 1824 can be confused with those made by O. smreczynskii or O. rotundus, at least if present in larger numbers. The feeding habits of all these species except O. hungaricus were studied during the Soil-dwelling Weevils Project [45]: feeding signs were observed in the field, reproduced in the lab and illustrated by several photographs [12].…”

“…and Syringa vulgaris (Figure 19I-N). To assume that feeding signs of a sawfly, Macrophya punctumalbum (Linnaeus, 1767) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae), can be confused with those of O. smreczynskii or O. rotundus seems very strange [44].…”

“…The distribution of O. smreczynskii ranges from eastern to central, northern and eastern parts of western Europe; it also occurs in southwestern Siberia [51], very probably as an introduction (Figure 20). It has been listed in a number of European countries, including Belarus, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Moldova, Russia, Switzerland and Sweden [8,34,36,37,40,44,48,52], Egorov (personal comm. from 02.07.2021), thus showing a significantly wider distribution than O. rotundus.…”

“…Cmoluch (unpublished data) and Dieckmann [7] presumed this species to have originated in Belarus, and the information was reproduced by many other authors. This concept has since been revised by Sautkin and Meleshko [44] and Korotyaev and Andreeva [37], the former authors having recorded this species in Belarus for the first time in June 2015. The origin of O. smreczynskii is still not well known.…”

New food plants for insects Vilbasteana oculata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and Otiorhynchus smreczynskii (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Baltic region

“…So far O. smreczynskii is considered native in Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine; and it has been unintentionally introduced to Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and Switzerland (Dieckmann 1980;Sprick 1989;Yunakov 2003;Anderson 2009;Fägerström et al 2010;Balalaikins, Bukejs, 2011;Yunakov et al 2012;Gederaas et al 2012;Dedyukhin 2014;Podlussány et al 2014;Heijerman, Burgers 2015;Benedikt et al 2016;Sautkin, Meleshko 2016;Benedikt et al 2017).…”