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Genus Thysanoes

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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 Micracidini
Genus Thysanoes
Explanation of Names
Thysanoes LeConte 1876
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, 15 total(1)
Size
1.2–2.3 mm(1)
Range
Canada to Costa Rica(1); in our area, across the southern US, 1 sp. ranges north into IL & PA(2)
Food
Apparently xylophagous in small branches and trees(2); hosts: Acacia, Acer, Berberus, Berchemia, Carya, Castanea, Celtis, Gleditsia, Quercus, Mimosa, Morusrubra, Prosopis, Rhizophora, Ulmus(1)
Life Cycle
Egg galleries are constructed almost entirely in the sapwood, nearly encircling the twig in a diagonal direction just beneath the bark. Larval galleries run parallel with the grain.(3)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Mercado J.E. (2011) Bark beetle genera of the United States
2.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.
3.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.