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Genus Xyleborus

Scolytini - Xyleborus bispinatus Xyleborus volvulus Xyleborus volvulus Uknown Bark Beetle - Xyleborus ferrugineus bark beetle - Xyleborus ferrugineus Redbay ambrosia beetle - Xyleborus glabratus - female Redbay ambrosia beetle - Xyleborus glabratus - female Scolytinae - Xyleborus bispinatus
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 Xyleborini
Genus Xyleborus
Explanation of Names
Xyleborus Eichoff 1864
Numbers
16 spp. in our area, of which 3 adventive from Eurasia; >500 spp. worldwide(1)
Identification
Key to species in (2) but see (3) for an additional introduced species.
An older key in (4) has good illustrations of some of the characters.
Range
worldwide; in our area, most species in the east
Life Cycle
Attack various woody plants. Some (or all?) males are flightless, haploid, mate with sibling or parental females in the brood galleries. Some reproduction by parthenogenesis(1)
Internet References
X. glabratus fact sheet (Mann et al. 2012)(6)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
Gomez D.F., Rabaglia R.J., Fairbanks K.E.O., Hulcr J. 2018. ZooKeys 768: 19–68.
3.Establishment of a non-native xyleborine ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus monographus (Fabricius) .....
Rabaglia, R.J., Smith, S.L., Rugman-Jones, P., DiGirolomo, M.F., Ewing, C. & Eskalen, A. 2020. ZooTaxa 4786(2): 269–276.
4.Review of American Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) occuring north of Mexico, with an illustrated key
Rabaglia, R.J., S.A. Dole, and A.I. Cognato. 2006. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(6): 1034-1056.
5.Mercado J.E. (2011) Bark beetle genera of the United States
6.University of Florida: Featured Creatures