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Host specificity of Asian Chrysochus Chevr. in Dej. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and their potential use for biological control of invasive Vincetoxicum species

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Three Asian leaf beetles of the genus Chrysochus were investigated as potential biological control agents of Vincetoxicum rossicum and V. nigrum, invasive weeds in northeastern North America. Chrysochus chinensis and Ch. globicollis were collected from a field host in a different genus and subtribe. Preliminary no-choice laboratory tests with Ch. goniostoma showed that its physiological host range is too broad. Based on these data, we are not considering these three species as potential biological control agents of invasive Vincetoxicum species.

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  1. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    M. Yu. Dolgovskaya, M. G. Volkovitsh, S. Ya. Reznik & A. G. Moseyko

  2. USDA-ARS, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, NY, USA

    L. R. Milbrath

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Dolgovskaya, M.Y., Volkovitsh, M.G., Reznik, S.Y. et al. Host specificity of Asian Chrysochus Chevr. in Dej. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and their potential use for biological control of invasive Vincetoxicum species. Entmol. Rev. 96, 826–830 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873816070022

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