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Genus Hylastes

Bark Beetle - Hylastes Small Beetle - Hylastes Hylastes - Hylastes gracilis Hylastes - Hylastes gracilis Hylastes - Hylastes porculus Hylastes? - Hylastes gracilis Hylastes, via sweep netting - Hylastes Bark Beetle - Hylastes
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
Explanation of Names
Hylastes Erichson 1836
Numbers
14 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area, ~30 total(1)
Identification
Key to species in (2), emendation in (3)
Range
Holarctic, incl. most of NA south to Honduras(4)(1)
Food
on Pinaceae(4)
Remarks
H. opacus is adventive from Europe (ne. US to WV; OR)(1)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Mercado J.E. (2011) Bark beetle genera of the United States
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.New records of immigrant bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in New York: Attraction of conifer-feeding species to ethanol...
Hoebeke, E.R. 1994. Entomological News.
4.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.