used to be treated as a separate family, Scolytidae (=Ipidae); all the subtribes used in the guide (except Corthylina & Pityophthorina) are treated as tribes in(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Scolytinae Latreille 1804
Numbers
~578 spp. in >100 genera in our area(3), ~6000 spp. in almost 250 genera worldwide arranged into ~30 [sub]tribes(1)(4)(2)
Identification
most comprehensive treatment of NA fauna in(5) (outdated but still essential)
database of all North American species with images, distribution and host data(3)
Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
