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Tribe Polygraphini

small beetle with leaf-like antennae - Polygraphus rufipennis Carphoborus bicornus Wood - Carphoborus bicornis Carphoborus - Carphoborus bicornis Carphoborus frontalis Carphoborus frontalis Curculionidae - Polygraphus rufipennis Curculionidae – Bark and Ambrosia Beetles – Scolytinae – Polygraphini – Polygraphus rufipennis – Four-eyed Spruce Bark - Polygraphus rufipennis Scolytinae, found on snowpack - Polygraphus rufipennis
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 Polygraphini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Polygraphini Chapuis 1869
Numbers
14 spp. in 3 genera north of Mexico(1)
Range
Across the continent(1)
Food
On conifers, most of NA spp. on Pinaceae(1)
Works Cited
1.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 Thomas H. Atkinson on 22 December, 2009 - 3:00pm
Additional contributions by John VanDyk, v belov
Last updated 6 March, 2022 - 3:25pm

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