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Species Trypodendron domesticum - European Hardwood Ambrosia Beetle

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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 Xyloterini
Genus Trypodendron
Species domesticum (European Hardwood Ambrosia Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Trypodendron domesticum (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
3.2‒3.8 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA (BC, WA, PE, PA)(2)(3)
Food
on various hardwoods(2)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: WA 2008(3)
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