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Diorhabda carinulata
| Resource Type | Organism |
|---|---|
| Genus | Diorhabda |
| Species | carinulata |
| Common Name | northern tamarisk beetle |
| Description | Diorhabda carinulata is a species of leaf beetle known as the northern tamarisk beetle, which feeds on tamarisk trees from southern Russia and Iran to Mongolia and western China. This beetle is used in North America as a biological pest control agent against saltcedar or tamarisk (Tamarix spp.), an invasive species in arid and semiarid ecosystems (where D. carinulata and its closely related sibling species are also less accurately referred to as the 'saltcedar beetle', 'saltcedar leaf beetle', 'salt cedar leaf beetle', or 'tamarisk leaf beetle'). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diorhabda_carinulata This dataset is not published - please follow Toronto/Ft. Lauderdale conditions of data re-use. This genome project is part of the Ag100Pest project (http://i5k.github.io/ag100pest). |
| Publication | Childers AK, Geib SM, Sim SB, Poelchau MF, Coates BS, Simmonds TJ, Scully ED, Smith TPL, Childers CP, Corpuz RL, Hackett K, Scheffler B. The USDA-ARS Ag100Pest Initiative: High-Quality Genome Assemblies for Agricultural Pest Arthropod Research.. Insects. 2021 Jul 09; 12(7). |
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| Image Credit |  by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. |