* Beddes T & Caron M (2014) Pacific Flatheaded Borer and Flatheaded Appletree Borer. Utah Pests Fact Sheet, (ENT-170-14PR)
------- no details given on the live stage associated.
* Paiero SM, Jackson MD, Jewiss-Gaines A, Kimoto T, Gill BD, Marshall SA (2012) Field guide to the jewel beetles of northeastern North America. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
------- covers several species of the femorata complex together
* EPPO (2021) EPPO Technical Document No. 1083. Pest risk analysis for Chrysobothris femorata and C. mali. EPPO, Paris. Available at https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/CHRBFE/documents
------- very uncertain host (life stages are not indicated or record may relate to other species in the femorata complex)
* Pastalka T, Abeysekara N, Schweigkofler W (2023) First report of Phytophthora ramorum on Cotoneaster sp. in the USA. Plant Disease (early view). https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-07-23-1330-PDN
------- developed on detached leaf after inoculation.
* Giorgi S, Scortichini M (2005) Molecular characterization of Erwinia amylovora strains from different host plants through RFLP analysis and sequencing of hrpN and dspA/E genes. Plant Pathology 54, 789-798.
* Lecomte P, Cadic C, Belin J, Saubion M (1992) Sensitivity of Cotoneaster to fireblight. PHM Revue Horticole 324, 26-29.
* Zeller W (1977) Studies on fire blight in the German Federal Republic. 2. Susceptibility of woody ornamentals to Erwinia amylovora. Nachrichtenblatt des Deutschen Pflanzenschutzdienstes 29(1 ), p 1-10.
* Hızal E, Öztemiz S, Gjonov I (2023) Phenology and host preferences of the invasive Pochazia shantungensis (Chou & Lu, 1977) (Hemiptera: Ricaniidae), a risk for agriculture and forest areas in the West-Palaearctic Region. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 75(2), 251-258. https://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/2023/002673
* Yee WL, Norrbom AL (2017) Provisional List of Suitable Host Plants of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Version 1.0, 20pp, in USDA Compendium of Fruit Fly Host Information (CoFFHI)
Edition 2.0; https://coffhi.cphst.org/.
------- confirmed host
* Yee WL, Goughnour RB (2008) Host use by and new host records of apple maggot, western cherry fruit fly, and other Rhagoletis species (Diptera: Tephritidae) in western Washington state. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 84: 179–193
------- (host as Cotoneaster lacteus W. W. Smith)