Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Ipini

Scolytine - Ips tridens Gnathotrichus materiarius? - Pityogenes hopkinsi Insect star shaped gallery in conifer wood - Ips Ips woodi Scolytin - Orthotomicus caelatus Bark Beetle - Pityogenes carinulatus Ips grandicollis borer 1 - Orthotomicus caelatus
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.