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  • Vectors of Dutch Elm Diseas...
    Jürisoo, Liina; Süda, Ilmar; Agan, Ahto; Drenkhan, Rein

    Insects (Basel, Switzerland), 04/2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 5
    Journal Article

    Potential Dutch elm disease vector beetle species were caught with pheromone bottle traps and handpicked in 2019: in total, seven species and 261 specimens were collected. The most common was , but by percent, the incidence of was highest in , followed by and . We analysed the beetles DNA using PacBio sequencing to determine vector beetles of . was found on six out of seven analysed beetle species: , S , , , and . The last two beetles were detected as vectors for for the first time. Previous knowledge on the spread of beetles is discussed.