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Species Hylurgopinus rufipes - Native Elm Bark Beetle

Hylurgopinus rufipes Eichhoff - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae, dorsal - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae, ventral - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae ? - Hylurgopinus rufipes Scolytinae ? - Hylurgopinus rufipes Coleoptera - Hylurgopinus rufipes Hylurgopinus rufipes
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 Hylurgopinus
Species rufipes (Native Elm Bark Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Hylurgopinus rufipes (Eichhoff 1868)
Size
2‒3.5 mm(1)
Range
NA east of the Rockies(2)
Food
bark of the large branches and boles of Ulmus(2)
Remarks
a vector of the Dutch elm disease fungus(2)
Works Cited
1.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.
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.