Scolytus

Scolytus
Scolytus scolytus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Scolytinae
Tribe:	Scolytini
Genus:	Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762
Species
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Scolytus is a genus of bark beetles (subfamily Scolytinae). It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests. The Dutch elm disease is spread in North America by two species : the native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopinus rufipes, and the European elm bark beetle, Scolytus multistriatus. In Europe, while the aforementioned Scolytus multistriatus again acts as vector for infection, it is much less effective than the large elm bark beetle Scolytus scolytus.

Scolytus scolytus

Species[]

Species include:

• Guerin, 1847, the almond bark beetle^[1]
• Bright, 1964
• Walsh, 1867
• Scolytus jacobsoni Spessivtzev, 1919
• Blackman, 1934, the ^[2]
• Scolytus mali (Bechstein, 1805), the larger shothole borer
• Swaine, 1917
• Scolytus multistriatus (Marsham, 1802), the European elm bark beetle, smaller European elm bark beetle
• Scolytus muticus Say, 1824, the hackberry beetle
• Wood, 1962
• Blackman, 1934
• Blackman, 1934
• Le Conte, 1876
• Scolytus quadrispinosus Say, 1824, the hickory bark beetle^[2]
• Blackman, 1934^[2]
• Blackman, 1934
• Scolytus rugulosus (Müller, 1818), the shothole borer^[2]
• Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov, 1902, the banded elm bark beetle
• Scolytus scolytus (Fabricius, 1775), larger European elm bark beetle
• Le Conte, 1876
• Le Conte, 1876, the
• Le Conte, 1868, the

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Scolytus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Scolytus at Wikispecies
• "Scolytus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• PaDIL Sheet on Scolytus scolytus