The ambrosial mycobiota of Treptoplatypus oxyurus (Coleoptera, Platypodidae): a unique island of fungal diversity revealing Wilhelmdebeerea oxyuri gen. et sp. nov. (Ophiostomatales), and two new yeast species Blastobotrys sasensis sp. nov., and Sugiyamaella casensis sp. nov. (Dipodascales) Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) form obligate nutritional symbioses with ambrosia fungi cultivated within their galleries. Among them, the pinhole borers (Platypodinae) are predominantly…

🪲 The hidden biodiversity of Europe's forests: scientists have found previously undescribed fungi living in symbiosis with a unique species of beetle

Study ➡️ imafungus.pensoft.net/article/1770... #AmbrosiaBeetles #Mycangia

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The #OpenAccess #EditorsChoice article for the issue investigated the association between #AmbrosiaBeetles & ʻōhiʻa (#Metrosideros polymorpha) artificially inoculated with #Ceratocystis lukuohia.

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doi.org/10.1111/afe.70007

#Scolytinae #Platypodinae

🕷️ Beyond phoresy: Histiogaster arborsignis not only hitches rides with ambrosia beetles it also colonizes their galleries and feeds on symbiotic fungi in Florida avocados
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience

FIGURES 1‒5. Sinonichnus montanus sp. nov., holotype. Dorsal habitus (1), aedeagus in ventral (2, 4), and lateral (3, 5) views.

#LiteratureNotice Johnson et al. New records and taxonomic changes for the bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: #Curculionidae: Scolytinae) of Florida doi.org/10.1515/flae... #Beetle #Beetles #ambrosiabeetles

New #OpenAccess work in #RESAgForestEnt

Temporal association between #AmbrosiaBeetles & ʻōhiʻa (#Metrosideros polymorpha) inoculated with #Ceratocystis lukuohia
doi.org/10.1111/afe.70007

#Scolytinae #Platypodinae
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess research in #RESAgForestEnt
Evaluating #semiochemical-based strategies for managing #AmbrosiaBeetles in apple #orchards
doi.org/10.1111/afe.12697

#Scolytinae #IPM
@jordancuff.bsky.social @chrisranger.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social @wiley.com

job advertisement for a PhD student ‘Ecology of ambrosia beetle and fungi invasions’ (f/m/d)

Looking for a #PhD? Experience in #entomology, #mycology and invasion #biology and interested in insect and #forest #ecology? Our Research Unit ‘Forest Health and Biotic Interactions’ is offering a PhD position: apply.refline.ch/273855/1671/... #ambrosiabeetles #fungi #sciencejobs #research

#LiteratureNotice Yamasaki et al. Capture of the oak #AmbrosiaBeetles within the host tree canopy. doi.org/10.4039/tce.... #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils

#LiteratureNotice Markovic & Dobrosavljević. Review of #Scolytinae (#Coleoptera, #Curculionidae) of Serbia. doi.org/10.51963/jer... #Beetle #Beetles #Weevils #AmbrosiaBeetles