Q-bank Arthropod database

The Q-bank Arthropod database contains DNA sequence (Barcodes) on 198 quarantine arthropod species for Europe and their closest relatives. We used COI and, when possible, ITS markers to deliver a molecular identification tool for Q arthropods as well as congeneric pest species.
Q-arthropods are diverse and threat most cultivated plants from maize to coconut, from fruit trees to pine trees, from vegetables to vine. Among the list of EU quarantine arthropods we select 7 species of mites and 191 species of insects that represent 6 orders [Coleoptera (81), Diptera (35), Hemiptera (32), Hymenoptera (5), Lepidoptera (33), Thysanoptera (5)].
About 70 species are quarantine pests of forests while the other (128) are mostly associated with agriculture or ornemental crops and sometimes also forest trees. Most Q arthropods originated from Palearctic (48) and Nearctic region (67). Other regions of origin are the neotropics (31), the oriental region (25), the afrotropics (17), Australia (5) and 5 from undertermined origin.

 

Three subgroups have been defined:

1) Priority 1 : 104 species, 10 specimens to barcode from several localities. 60 species agriculture - 44 species forests - 33 families. Nearly all Tephritidae, all Scolytidae, all Cerambycidae, all Spodoptera, nearly all Agromyzidae.

2) Priority 2 : 94 species, 5 specimens to be barcoded. 12 species on Citrus, 16 species on fruit trees, 8 on Solanum, 6 on Vitis (vectors). This group adds 15 families of arthropods.

3) To facilitate, Q species identification, we have also sequenced about 100 closely related species (including also some pests).

The distribution as well as relevant EPPO-protocols for the insects can be downloaded from www.eppo.org.

Used references for the database :

For the taxonomy of Insecta : Fauna Europaea (2011) Fauna Europaea version2.4 Web Service available online at http://www.faunaeur.org.

For the Plant taxonomy:
The Agiosperms Phylogeny Group. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 161, 105-121.
Chase Marc W. & Reveal James L. A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009, 161, 122-127.
The Astereae Working Group. Devoted to the Systematics and Evolution of the Aster Tribe. UNM Herbarium [last updated 17 November 2006], http://www.msb.unm.edu/herbarium/astereae/index.html (Accessed 06 December 2012)
Smith Alan R., Pryer Kathleen M., Schuettpelz Eric, Korall Petra, Schneider Harald & Wolf Paul G. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon, 55 (3): 705-731.
Christenhusz Maarten J.M., Reveal James L., Farjon Aljos, Gardner Martin F., Mill Robert R. & Chase Marc W. A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa, 19: 55-70.
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ (Retrieved june 2011)
Classification APG III. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_APG_III [last update 25 september 2011].
The National Center for Biotechnology Information. Taxonomy browser. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy (Accessed 06 january 2012)

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