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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Scolytinae) » Crenulate Bark Beetles (Hylesinini) » Hylurgina » Hylurgopinus » Native Elm Bark Beetle (Hylurgopinus rufipes)

Species Hylurgopinus rufipes - Native Elm Bark Beetle

Classification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Hylurgopinus rufipes Eichhoff - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae, ventral - Hylurgopinus rufipes Native Elm Bark Beetle - Hylurgopinus rufipes Native Elm Bark Beetle - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae ? - Hylurgopinus rufipes Hylurgopinus rufipes Coleoptera - Hylurgopinus rufipes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Scolytinae (Bark and Ambrosia Beetles)
Tribe Hylesinini (Crenulate Bark Beetles)
Subtribe Hylurgina
Genus Hylurgopinus
Species rufipes (Native Elm Bark Beetle)
Range
e. NA (east of the Rockies)(1)
Food
bark of the large branches and boles of Ulmus (a vector of the Dutch elm disease fungus)(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 v belov on 16 October, 2010 - 4:01pm
Last updated 13 January, 2011 - 8:46pm

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