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A bark beetle is the common name for the subfamily of beetles Scolytinae. [1] Previously, this was considered a distinct family (Scolytidae), but is now understood to be a specialized clade of the "true weevil " family (Curculionidae). Although the term "bark beetle" refers to the fact that many species feed in the inner bark (phloem) layer of ...
Morphology. Adults are usually 4.0–5.5 millimetres (0.16–0.22 in) long, cylindrical and robust, black or brownish-black. Elytral declivity is slightly shiny, with four teeth on each margin side. The third tooth is the biggest and club like on its top. The egg is yellowish-white. The larva is white and legless.
Fabricius, 1781. Cucujus clavipes is known as the flat bark beetle. [1] [2] It is found throughout North America. [3] These are generally found near tree line [4] under bark [2] of dead poplar and ash trees. [5] C. clavipes are described as phloem-feeding [6] and often predators [1] of other small insects, such as wood-boring beetles, and mites ...
Dendroctonus micans, the great spruce bark beetle, is a species of bark beetle native to the coniferous forests of Europe and Asia. The beetles burrow into the bark of spruce trees and lay eggs which develop into larvae that feed on the woody layers under the bark.
The Cucujidae, or flat bark beetles, are a family of distinctively flat beetles found worldwide (except Africa and Antarctica) under the bark of dead trees. The family has received considerable taxonomic attention in recent years and now consists of 70 species distributed in five genera. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It was indicated Cucujus species are ...
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 millimetres (1⁄4 in), about the size of a grain of rice. In western North America, an outbreak of the beetle and ...
Dendroctonus frontalis, the southern pine beetle, [1] often shortened to simply SPB, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. [2] It has recently expanded its range to the northeastern United States, where it is considered an invasive species and has destroyed massive amounts ...
Laemophloeidae, "lined flat bark beetles," is a family in the superfamily Cucujoidea characterized by predominantly dorso-ventrally compressed bodies, head and pronotal discs bordered by ridges or grooves, and inverted male genitalia. [1][2] Size range of adults is 1–5 mm (0.04–0.2 in) in length.