EPPO Global Database

Hylastes nigrinus(HYASNI)

Vector of

Important note on vectors:
Information on vectors and their associated pathogens is a new feature of the database (April 2023). Data will gradually be entered by the EPPO Secretariat and will focus on regulated (quarantine) pests.
Organism Type
Grosmannia wageneri (LEPGWA) Known vector
* Cobb FW (1988) Leptographium wageneri, cause of black stain root disease; a review of its discovery, occurrence and biology with emphasis on pinyon and ponderosa pine. In: Leptographium root disease in conifers (Ed. by Harrington TC; Cobb FW), APS, St Paul, Minnesota (US), pp. 41-62.

* Witcosky JJ, Schowalter TD, Hansen EM (1986) Hylastes nigrinus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Pissodes fasciatus, and Steremnius carinatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) as vectors of black-stain root disease of Douglas-fir. Environmental Entomology, 15(5), 1090–1095.