Dendroctonus

Genus of beetles

Dendroctonus
Dendroctonus ponderosae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Scolytinae
Tribe: Hylesinini
Genus: Dendroctonus
Erichson, 1836
Species

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Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has a symbiotic relationship with many different yeasts, particularly those in the genera Candida and Pichia that aid in digestion and pheromone production.[1]

D. micans

Species include:

  • Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus armandi - Chinese white pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus barberi - southwestern pine beetle[2]
  • Dendroctonus brevicomis - western pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus frontalis - southern pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus mesoamericanus - Mesoamerican pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus mexicanus - smaller Mexican pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus micans - great spruce bark beetle
  • Dendroctonus murrayanae - lodgepole pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus parallelocollis - larger Mexican pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus ponderosae - mountain pine beetle
  • Dendroctonus pseudotsugae - Douglas-fir beetle
  • Dendroctonus punctatus - Allegheny spruce beetle
  • Dendroctonus rufipennis - spruce beetle
  • Dendroctonus rhizophagus - TBD
  • Dendroctonus simplex - eastern larch beetle
  • Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
  • Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle
  • Dendroctonus vitei

References

  1. ^ Rivera, Flor N .; González, Evelyn; Gómez, Zulema; Hernández-Rodríguez, Cesar; Berkov, Amy; Zúñiga, Gerardo (2009). "Gut-associated yeast in bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 98 (2): 325–342. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01289.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-22.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Brian T.; Grady, Amanda M.; Hofstetter, Richard W.; Pureswaran, Deepa S.; Brownie, Cavell; Cluck, Daniel; Coleman, Tom W.; Graves, Andrew; Willhite, Elizabeth; Spiegel, Lia; Scarbrough, Dwight; Orlemann, Andrew; Zúñiga, Gerardo (January 2021). "Evidence for Semiochemical Divergence Between Sibling Bark Beetle Species: Dendroctonus brevicomis and Dendroctonus barberi". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 47 (1): 10–27. doi:10.1007/s10886-020-01233-y. ISSN 0098-0331. PMID 33405044. S2CID 230783201 – via ProQuest.

External links

  • Media related to Dendroctonus at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Dendroctonus at Wikispecies
  • "Dendroctonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Dendroctonus Species of the Western United States
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