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Species Dactylotrypes longicollis

Dactylotrypes longicollis Dactylotrypes longicollis
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 Dryocoetini
Genus Dactylotrypes
Species longicollis (Dactylotrypes longicollis)
Explanation of Names
Dactylotrypes longicollis (Wollaston 1864)
Range
native to the Canary Islands and Madeira, adventive elsewhere; in our area, established in CA(1)(2)
Food
hosts: various palms and Dracaena draco (Ruscaceae)(1)
Remarks
attacks seeds of palms and related plants; unlikely to become a pest in NA; earliest record in our area: CA 2009(1)(3)
Internet References
Species page(2)
Works Cited
1.Dactylotrypes longicollis (Wollaston) (Col.:Curculionidae:Scolytinae): an exotic bark beetle new to California and North America
LaBonte J.R., Takahashi C.Y. 2012. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 88: 222-230.
2.Atkinson T.H. (200_‒2023) Bark and ambrosia beetles of the Americas
3.Exotic bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the United States: potential and current invaders
Haack R.A., Rabaglia R.J. 2013. In: Potential invasive pests of agricultural crops. Peña J.E., ed. CABI International, Wallingford, UK, pp. 48‒74.
Contributed by v belov on 6 February, 2014 - 7:55am
Last updated 22 February, 2014 - 12:24am

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