@article {257, title = {Insects of Campbell Island. Lepidoptera: Tineidae, Elachistidae, Hyponomeutidae, Oecophoridae, Tortricidae, Pterophoridae, Noctuidae}, journal = {Pacific Insects MonographPacific Insects Monograph}, volume = {7}, year = {1964}, pages = {255-259}, keywords = {Archipini, distribution, Elachistidae, Ericodesma, Gelechioidea, Hyponomeutidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Noctuidae, Oecophoridae, Pacific Insects, Pterophoridae, Pyrgotis, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Tortricinae}, author = {Yano, K.} } @article {202, title = {Geographic proximity not a prerequisite for invasion: Hawaii not the aource of California invasion by light brown apple moth (Epiphyas postvittana)}, journal = {PLoS ONEPLoS ONE}, volume = {6}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, pages = {e16361}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, abstract = {The light brown apple moth (LBAM), Epiphyas postvittana (Walker), is native to Australia but invaded England, New Zealand, and Hawaii more than 100 years ago. In temperate climates, LBAM can be a major agricultural pest. In 2006 LBAM was discovered in California, instigating eradication efforts and quarantine against Hawaiian agriculture, the assumption being that Hawaii was the source of the California infestation. Genetic relationships among populations in Hawaii, California, and New Zealand are crucial to understanding LBAM invasion dynamics across the Pacific.

Methodology/Principal Findings

We sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 1293 LBAM individuals from California (695), Hawaii (448), New Zealand (147), and Australia (3) to examine haplotype diversity and structure among introduced populations, and evaluate the null hypothesis that invasive populations are from a single panmictic source. However, invasive populations in California and New Zealand harbor deep genetic diversity, whereas Hawaii shows low level, shallow diversity.

Conclusions/Significance

LBAM recently has established itself in California, but was in Hawaii and New Zealand for hundreds of generations, yet California and New Zealand show similar levels of genetic diversity relative to Hawaii. Thus, there is no clear relationship between duration of invasion and genetic structure. Demographic statistics suggest rapid expansion occurring in California and past expansions in New Zealand; multiple introductions of diverse, genetically fragmented lineages could contribute to these patterns. Hawaii and California share no haplotypes, therefore, Hawaii is not the source of the California introduction. Paradoxically, Hawaii and California share multiple haplotypes with New Zealand. New Zealand may be the source for the California and Hawaii infestations, but the introductions were independent, and Hawaii was invaded only once. This has significant implications for quarantine, and suggests that probability of invasion is not directly related to geographic distance. Surprisingly, Hawaiian LBAM populations have much lower genetic diversity than California, despite being older.

}, keywords = {Archipini, California, Epiphyas postvittana, HAWAII, LBAM, LEPIDOPTERA, Pacific Insects, TORTRICIDAE, Tortricinae}, author = {Rubinoff, Daniel and Holland, Brenden S. and San Jose, Michael and Powell, Jerry A.} } @article {150, title = {Platynota stultana, the omnivorous leaf-roller, established in the Hawaiian Islands (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)}, journal = {Bishop Museum Occasional PapersBishop Museum Occasional Papers}, volume = {42}, year = {1995}, pages = {36-39}, abstract = {Platynota stultana (Walsingham) became established on the island of Oahu in the mid 1980s and was widespread by 1989. Although specimens have existed in several collections, this is the first published report of the occurrence of the species in the Hawaiian Islands. The species is apparently native to semiarid northwestern mainland Mexico and the adjacent southwestern United States (not including California), but it has become widespread in California over the last 90 years (Powell 1983). It also occurs in Florida (Kimball 1965: 267) and is a greenhouse pest throughout the continental United States (Atkins et al. 1957). It has a broad range of recorded hosts, including over 25 plant families (Atkins et al. 1957, Powell 1983).}, keywords = {distribution, HAWAII, LEPIDOPTERA, Pacific Insects, Platynota, TORTRICIDAE, Tortricinae}, author = {Miller, S. E. and Hodges, R.W.} } @article {15, title = {Microlepidoptera from Rennell and Bellona Islands}, journal = {The Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon IslandsThe Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands}, volume = {2}, number = {19}, year = {1957}, note = {Cryptophlebia pallifimbriana, C. iridosema. Of 850 specimens, 660 were identified as 67 species or subspecies (24 new).}, pages = {87-112}, abstract = {This paper is based upon material collected by my wife and myself during a visit to the Solomon Islands from September 1953 to January 1954. We were on Rennell Island in October and November, and Bellona Island for two days at the end of November. An account of our expedition and a list of collecting stations appeared earlier in this series (Vol I: 43-57). While in the Solomons we also collected on Guadalcanal, Ysabel, Tulagi, the Russell Islands, and on Ontong Java Atoll, and certain of this material is referred to in the present paper when relevan to the fuana of Rennell and Bellona.}, keywords = {Acroclita, Adoxophyes, Allohermenias, Argyroploce, Bactra, Carposinidae, Chlidanotinae, Cosmopterigidae, Cryptophlebia, description, distribution, Eleuthodema, Epicephala, Erechthias, Eucosma, Gelechiidae, Gracillariidae, Heliodinidae, Herpystis, Icelita, immidae, LEPIDOPTERA, Lobesia, Olethreutinae, Opostegidae, Pacific Insects, Periphoeba, Pseudoclita, Solomon Islands, Spilonota, Tineidae, TORTRICIDAE, Tortricinae, Trymalitis, Yponomeutidae}, author = {Bradley, J. D.} }