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Trypophloeus

Tyrpophloeus is a genus of bark beetles. About 12 species comprise the genus, ranging from North America to Europe and Asia. The genus is little-known, but T. populi has recently become important as the causative agent of sudden aspen decline.

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Trypophloeus
Trypophloeus binodulus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subtribe: Cryphalina
Genus: Trypophloeus
Fairmaine, 1868

Tyrpophloeus is a genus of bark beetles. About 12 species comprise the genus, ranging from North America to Europe and Asia.1 The genus is little-known, but T. populi has recently become important as the causative agent of sudden aspen decline.

Other species' host are mainly poplars, willows and alders.2

Partial species list

  • Trypophloeus alni
  • Trypophloeus asperatus
  • Trypophloeus bispinulus
  • Trypophloeus discedens
  • Trypophloeus klimeschi
  • Trypophloeus nitidus Swaine, 1912
  • Trypophloeus populi Hopkins, 1915
  • Trypophloeus striatulus (also known as the willow bark beetle) Mannerheim, 1853
  • Trypophloeus thatcheri
References

References

  1. Jerold L. Petty. "Bionomics of two aspen bark beetles, Trypophloeus populi and Procryphalus mucronatus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)". 106 Great Basin Naturalist Vol. 37, No. 1 pp 105-127.
  2. Süda, I. Trypophloeus Fairmaine in Estonia and neighbouring countries, Eesti Metsamajanduse ja Looduskaitse Institut, Estonia