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Species Ips avulsus - Small Southern Pine Engraver

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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 Ipini
Genus Ips
Species avulsus (Small Southern Pine Engraver)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ips avulsus (Eichhoff)
Orig. Comb: Tomicus avulsus Eichhoff 1868
Explanation of Names
avulsus (L). 'not smooth/plucked' (1)
Numbers
23 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Size
2.3-2.8 mm (LaForest 2008)
the smallest member of the genus
Identification
Wing close up:
Range
e US (TX-FL-PA-OK) / Bahamas (3)
Food
Pinus spp. (Pinaceae) (3)
Life Cycle
can be completed in as few as 25 days; up to 6 generations a year (LaForest 2008)
Internet References
Bugwood.org - J. LaForest, 2008
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.Atkinson T.H. (200_‒2023) Bark and ambrosia beetles of the Americas