The Coleopterists Bulletin | 2019
New State Records of Non-Target Buprestidae (Coleoptera) Detected in Emerald Ash Borer Traps in Vermont, USA
Abstract
Trapping for the invasive emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, has captured many non-target insects (Skvarla and Holland 2011), including the first detection of Agrilus smaragdifrons Ganglbauer (Hoebeke et al. 2017) and Agrilus sulcicollis Lacordaire (Haack et al. 2009) in North America. The state of Vermont monitored for nontarget Buprestidae while participating in the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) national trap detection survey forA. planipennis from 2008–2016 (APHIS 2018). Surveyors from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets deployed purple prism traps baited with manuka oil (Crook and Mastro 2010) throughout the state starting in 2008. The manuka oil lure was changed to (Z)-3-hexanol in 2011 (de Groot et al. 2008). Surveyors from the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation deployed Fluon-coated green Lindgren funnel traps baited with (Z)-3-hexanol lure pouches (Francese et al. 2011) to augment the APHIS-sponsored survey starting in 2015. All Buprestidae from both trap types were collected and submitted to E. Richard Hoebeke for identification and verification. State officials substantiated new state records by comparison with the University of Vermont and Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Buprestidae collections and published distributional data (Nelson et al. 2008; Paiero et al. 2012). Thirty species of Buprestidae other than A. planipennis were collected and identified through the 2008–2016 trapping efforts; 12 are new state records for Vermont. Most of the new state records fill in existing published distributions of Buprestidae in the northeastern USA (Nelson et al. 2008; Paiero et al. 2012). Detections of Agrilus ohioensis Knull and Agrilus osburni Knull add to the known range of these rarely collected beetles (Skvarla et al. 2015; Barringer 2017). Combined with recent buprestid survey results by utilizing Cerceris fumipennis Say in New England (Bohne et al. 2019), a total of 28 new state records of Buprestidae have been detected while surveying for emerald ash borer in Vermont. Species are listed alphabetically. Records are presented in standardized format [county, town, place name, geographic coordinates, date of collection (day.month.year), number of specimens, trap type and lure). Voucher specimens are retained in the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Collection in the Vermont Agricultural and Environmental Laboratory (Randolph Center, VT). Duplicates of Vermont specimens are deposited in the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA). Additional duplicate specimens are also retained at the Georgia Museum of Natural History Collection of Arthropods (Athens, GA). The complete results of these and other regional buprestid surveys are available through a geodatabase hosted by ArcGIS online at bit.ly/ buprestidae.