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Genus Corthylus

Bark beetle - Corthylus - male Corthylus? - Corthylus Corthylus? - Corthylus Scolytin - Corthylus columbianus Unknown Scolytid - Corthylus punctatissimus maybe Scolytinae? - Corthylus columbianus Scolytinae - Corthylus Curculionidae – Bark and Ambrosia Beetles – Scolytinae – Pityophthorini – Corthylina – Corthylus columbianus - Corthylus columbianus
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 Corthylini
Subtribe Corthylina
Genus Corthylus
Explanation of Names
Corthylus Erichson 1836
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, ~120 total(1)(2)
Size
1.2–4.3 mm(1)
Range
Canada to Argentina(1); in our area, east of the Rockies(3)
Food
A variety of arrangements:(3)
C. columbianus Hopkins –- on xylem living maple (Acer, Aceraceae) and other trees (oak, sycamore)
C. papulans Eichhoff –- on small branches of various
C. punctatissimus (Zimmermann) –- on sapling trees (esp. maple) close to the ground
Internet References
Genus page(1)
Works Cited
1.Mercado J.E. (2011) Bark beetle genera of the United States
2.Atkinson T.H. (200_‒2023) Bark and ambrosia beetles of the Americas
3.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.
Contributed by Tim Loh on 15 April, 2009 - 1:59am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 February, 2015 - 1:36pm

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