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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Scolytinae) » Xyleborini » Xyleborinus

Genus Xyleborinus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited

Ambrosia beetle - Xyleborinus attenuatus

Xyleborinus saxeseni - Xyleborinus saxesenii - female

Xyleborinus? Scolutinae from a Lindgren funnel - Xyleborinus saxesenii

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 Xyleborini

Genus Xyleborinus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

was often treated as a subgenus or synonym of Xyleborus(1)

Explanation of Names

Xyleborinus Reitter 1913

Numbers

5 spp. (of which 3 adventive) in our area, ~80 total(2)

Size

males dwarfed and flightless, females 1.4–3.5 mm(3)

Identification

key to spp. in (2)

also helpful is key to entire tribe in (4)

distinguished from other Xyleborini genera by the projecting, conical scutellum as seen below

Range

worldwide & across NA(1)(3)

Food

attack limbs & boles of weakened trees(1)

Life Cycle

The galleries extend directly into the wood to a depth of 12-18mm then branch.(5)

Internet References

Genus page(3)

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.

2.	First records of Xyleborinus octiesdentatus (Murayama) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) from North America Rabaglia R.J., Knížek M.,Johnson W. 2010. Zookeys 56: 219–226.

3.	Mercado J.E. (2011) Bark beetle genera of the United States

4.	North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) Demian F. Gomez, Robert J. Rabaglia, Katherine E. O. Fairbanks, Jiri Hulcr. 2018. ZooKeys 768: 19-68.

5.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

Contributed by v belov on 7 May, 2010 - 3:49pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, mfdigiro, Marci Hess
Last updated 3 August, 2023 - 3:31pm

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