ABSTRACT
The Cerambycidae is a very large family of beetles with more than 36,000 species in the world (see Chapter 1). Nevertheless, only a small proportion of cerambycid species are plant pests of economic importance. They may damage plants by direct feeding or by transmission of plant diseases. With the growth of international trade, an increasing number of cerambycid species have become established outside their natural distribution range (Haack et al. 2010). Examples include the establishment of the Asian species Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky) in North America (Haack et al. 2010) and Europe (Straw 2015a, 2015b) and Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) in Europe (Haack et al. 2010; Peverieri et al. 2012), as well as the Australian species Phoracantha semipunctata (Fabricius) and Phoracantha recurva Newman in California and many parts of the world (CABI 2015a, 2015b).
