Dendroctonus

Dendroctonus
Dendroctonus ponderosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Scolytinae
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.

D. micans

Species include:

• Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
• Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus brevicomis - western pine beetle
• Dendroctonus frontalis - southern pine beetle
• Dendroctonus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine beetle
• Dendroctonus micans - great spruce bark beetle
• Dendroctonus murrayanae - lodgepole pine beetle
• Dendroctonus ponderosae - mountain pine beetle
• Dendroctonus pseudotsugae - Douglas-fir beetle
• Dendroctonus punctatus - Allegheny spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus rufipennis - spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus simplex - eastern larch beetle
• Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle

External links

• Dendroctonus Species of the Western United States
• "Dendroctonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114910. 

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