Dendroctonus
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| Dendroctonus ponderosae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Scolytinae |
| Genus: | Dendroctonus Erichson, 1836 |
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Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America.
Species include:
- Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
- Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
- Dendroctonus brevicomis - western pine beetle
- Dendroctonus frontalis - southern pine beetle
- Dendroctonus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine beetle
- Dendroctonus micans - great spruce bark beetle
- Dendroctonus murrayanae - lodgepole pine beetle
- Dendroctonus ponderosae - mountain pine beetle
- Dendroctonus pseudotsugae - Douglas-fir beetle
- Dendroctonus punctatus - Allegheny spruce beetle
- Dendroctonus rufipennis - spruce beetle
- Dendroctonus simplex - eastern larch beetle
- Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
- Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle
[edit] External links
- Dendroctonus Species of the Western United States
- "Dendroctonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114910.
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