Bionomia de coleobrocas de espécie florestais brasileiras (Curculionidae: Scolytinae e Platypodinae): uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

This work was developed with the objective of reviewing the literature on the species of Scolytinae and Platypodinae that occur in forest plantations in Brazil. For this, a wide bibliographical research was carried out in different available databases: Google Scholar, Capes Journal Portal, InterScience, Elsevier, Scopus. A descriptive, analytical and reflective methodology was used on the theme “Main species of Scolytinae and Platypodinae in Brazilian plantations” considering with a search strategy the indexed terms in English, Portuguese and Spanish: 'Scolytinae' and 'Platypodinae' associated with the terms “besouro ambrosia”, “bark beetle” and “insect pests”. The Google Scholar portal together with the Capes Journal Portal were the databases that had the best results, in all it was possible to locate and use 67 publications that helped the composition of this work. At the end, it was possible to organize a list with 80 species of Scolytianae and 50 species of Platypodinae with information on type-species, diagnosis, geographic distribution, biology, host plant, time of occurrence/intensity of attacks and evaluation and characterization of damage. The 130 species of Scolytinae and Platypodinae are distributed in 24 countries in the Neotropics. Of these, only 70 species of Scolytinae and Platypodinae are related to 23 families of host plants, highlighting the families Fabaceae, Malvaceae, Meliaceae and Myrtaceae, the hosts of the other species are unknown. Based on biological information, it was possible to identify some polyphagous species such as: Xylosandrus crassiusculus, Xyleborus ferrugineus, Xyleborus afinnis, Xyleborus volvulus, Cnestus retusus, Dryocoetoides cristatus, Dryocoetoides asperulus, Euwallacea fornicatus, Euplatypus parallelus. A large information gap was identified for the vast majority of species, thus suggesting the direction of more scientific research, to have a better quantification of the levels of economic losses caused by these two sub-families.