Genetic study of the forest pest Tomicus piniperda (Col., Scolytinae) in Yunnan province (China) compared to Europe: New insights for the systematics and evolution of the genus Tomicus

The ecological characteristics of the European and the Chinese population were studied to examine the difference in insight of the population for Tomicus piniperda. The main objective of the study is to measure the genetic divergence between Chinese and French populations of T. piniperda and to estimate the level of population differentiation between the two areas and understand their ecological disparities.