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Agriotes sordidus — Wikipedia (en)

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Agriotes sordidus is a species of click beetle, family Elateridae, found in south-western Europe, mainly in Spain, Portugal, France, south-western Germany and northern Italy. In the north the distribution extends to southern England, the Netherlands and the Upper Rhine valley of Germany. There are also records from northern Africa and the Canary Islands. A. sordidus is a serious agricultural pest in France as well as in parts of Germany and Italy with the polyphagous larvae (wireworms) damaging maize, other cereals and various other crops like alfalfa. They feed on the roots and the lower stems of seedlings and can cause plant mortality. The adults feed on the leaves, but cause little damage. Pest populations can be monitored using pheromone traps or by baiting wireworms in the soil. In maize fields, trapping of more than two A. sordidus larvae in standard soil traps within 10 days indicates likely economic damage and the need for control action. In order to reduce the environmental impact of soil insecticides, non-chemical management options should be applied as much as possible. These include crop rotation or timing tillage and irrigation in a way so that the eggs and young larvae are desiccated in the top layer of the soil. The adult beetles of A. sordidus have a length of 8–9 mm and a blackish brown coloration. They can be separated from other similar species like Agriotes rufipalpis, A. obscurus, and A. sputator by a combination of features like the shape of the pronotum, the densely punctured thorax, the shape and ridges on the elytra, as well as the coloration. The larvae can be identified by the tip of the abdomen and by other features.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Agriotes sordidus» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriotes_sordidus
Wikidata Q3130209: «specie di coleotteri» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3130209
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