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Species Hylastes opacus

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 opacus (Hylastes opacus)

Explanation of Names

Hylastes opacus Erichson 1836

Size

2.5-3.0mm(1)

Identification

Couplet #3 in Wood’s (1982)(2) key to the species of Hylastes of North and Central America was modified in Hoebeke (1994)(1) to facilitate identification of H. opacus.

Range

throughout the Eurasian conifer forests; [NB-MD to ON-WI-IN, WA-CA](3)

Food

Pinaceae, mostly Pinus(3)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1987(4)

Internet References

Species page(3)

Works Cited

1.	New records of immigrant bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in New York: Attraction of conifer-feeding species to ethanol... Hoebeke, E.R. 1994. Entomological News.

2.	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.

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

4.	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 - 11:06am
Additional contributions by mfdigiro
Last updated 24 August, 2019 - 2:59pm

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