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| Distribution: |
- Asia: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia Republic, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Mongolia, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
- Europe: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Former Czechoslovakia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands (Restricted Distribution), Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, Yugoslavia
- Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
- North America: Canada, USA
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| Host Plants: |
- Primary hosts: Avena sativa (oats), Elymus repens (couch grass), Festuca
arundinacea (alta fescue), Hordeum vulgare (barley), Phalaris
canariensis (Canarygrass), Phleum pratense (timothy), Secale cereale
(rye), Setaria italica (foxtail millet), Triticum aestivum (wheat), Zea
mays (maize)
- Wild hosts: Elymus
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| References: |
- CABI and EPPO 1998. Distribution Maps of Quarantine Pests for Europe. CABI in association with EPPO:800pp.
- CIE, 1969. Distribution Maps of Pests, No. 87. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.
- Dysart RJ, Maltby HL, Brunson MH, 1973. Larval parasites of Oulema melanopus in Europe and their colonization in the United States. Entomophaga, 18(2):133-167.
- EPPO, 1999. EPPO PQR database. Paris, France: EPPO.
- Haynes DL, Gage SH, 1981. The cereal leaf beetle in North America. Annual Review of Entomology, 26:259-287.
- Mohr KH, 1966. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae. In: Freude, H, Harde, KW, Lohse, GA, eds. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Krefeld: Goecke ünd Evers, 95-299.
- NAPIS, 1998. National Agricultural Pest Information Service. Washington, DC, USA: USDA/APHIS. World Wide Web Page at http://ceris.purdue.edu/napis.
- Webster JA, Smith DH Jr, 1983. Cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus (L.)) population densities and winter wheat yields. Crop Protection, 2(4):431-436.
- Wellso SG, 1976. Cereal leaf beetle: feeding and oviposition on winter wheat and spring oats. Environmental Entomology, 5(3):487-491.
- White RE, 1993. A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America North of Mexico. Technical Bulletin - United States Department of Agriculture Washington, USA; US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, No. 1805:v + 158 pp.
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