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Tribe Ipini

Orthotomicus erosus - female beetle - Ips pini Ips calligraphus (Germar) - Ips calligraphus Ips calligraphus (Germar) - Ips calligraphus Ips grandicollis Scolytin - Orthotomicus caelatus Scolytin - Orthotomicus caelatus Ips sp. - Ips lecontei - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Scolytinae (Bark and Ambrosia Beetles)
Tribe Ipini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ipini Bedel 1888
Numbers
~40 spp. in 5 genera in our area (60% are Ips spp.)(1)
Food
on Pinaceae(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.