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Genus Pseudohylesinus

Pseudohylesinus maculosus Blackman - Pseudohylesinus maculosus

Hylesinini swept from vegetation - Pseudohylesinus

Mountain Pine Beetle ? - Pseudohylesinus

Pseudohylesinus maculosus? - Pseudohylesinus maculosus

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 Hylurgini

Genus Pseudohylesinus

Explanation of Names

Pseudohylesinus Swaine 1917

Numbers

8 spp. in our area, 11 total(1)

Size

2.2–5.8 mm(1)

Range

w. NA(1)

Habitat

phloem of limbs/boles/roots of weakened conifers(2)

Internet References

Genus page(1)

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.

Contributed by v belov on 16 October, 2010 - 11:53am
Last updated 1 March, 2013 - 5:49pm

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