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Species Hylastes nigrinus - Douglas Fir Root Bark Beetle

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 Hylastini

Genus Hylastes

Species nigrinus (Douglas Fir Root Bark Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Hylastes nigrinus (Mannerheim, 1852)

Size

3.8-4.9mm(1)

Range

w. NA (AK-CA to NT-SD)(2)

Food

hosts: Pinaceae(2)

See Also

Very similar to Hylastes porculus but with a western distribution(1)

Internet References

Species page(2)

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.

2.	Atkinson T.H. (200_‒2023) Bark and ambrosia beetles of the Americas

Contributed by v belov on 6 February, 2014 - 10:27am
Additional contributions by mfdigiro
Last updated 24 August, 2019 - 7:34am

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