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Genus Crypturgus

teensiest bark beetles I've seen - Crypturgus pusillus

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 Crypturgini

Genus Crypturgus

Explanation of Names

Crypturgus Erichson 1836

Numbers

4 spp. in our area (of which 2 adventive), 17 total(1)

Size

1.0–1.2 mm(1)

Identification

See Remarks here:

Range

Holarctic widespread(1)

Food

on Pinaceae(1)

Internet References

Genus page(1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 11 April, 2008 - 6:53pm
Additional contributions by v belov, mfdigiro
Last updated 9 August, 2023 - 8:32pm

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