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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Bark and Ambrosia Beetles (Scolytinae) » Tryopophloeini » Hypothenemus » Hypothenemus seriatus

Species Hypothenemus seriatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Tryopophloeini
Genus Hypothenemus
Species seriatus (Hypothenemus seriatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hypothenemus seriatus (Eichhoff, 1872)
Range
e US (TX-FL-MA-IN) south to Brazil. Also Hawaii, Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. (1)
Habitat
Uses a large number of hosts, breeding in unthrifty twigs and branches, but sometimes in other areas of the plant. (1)
Food
See Wood (1) for a complete host list.
Remarks
Common, widely distributed. (1)
Internet References
Bark and Ambrosia Beetles
Works Cited
1.The Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), a Taxonomic Monograph
Stephen Wood. 1982. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, Number 6, Brigham Young University.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 31 October, 2012 - 2:39am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 6 July, 2016 - 1:28pm

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