Dendroctonus
| Dendroctonus | |
|---|---|
| |
| Dendroctonus ponderosae | |
Scientific classification
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Scolytinae |
| Tribe: | Hylesinini |
| Genus: | Dendroctonus Erichson, 1836 |
| Species | |
|
See text | |
Dendroctonusis a genus ofbark beetles.It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has asymbioticrelationship with many differentyeasts,particularly those in the generaCandidaandPichiathat aid in digestion and pheromone production.[1]
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
[edit]- ^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 fromthe original(PDF)on 2020-07-22.
- ^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.ISSN0098-0331.PMID33405044.S2CID230783201– via ProQuest.
External links
[edit]
Media related toDendroctonusat Wikimedia Commons
Data related toDendroctonusat Wikispecies- "Dendroctonus".Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- DendroctonusSpecies of the Western United States
