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Xyleborus volvulus

Xyleborus volvulus is a species of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.

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Xyleborus volvulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Xyleborus
Species:
X. volvulus
Binomial name
Xyleborus volvulus
(Fabricius, 1775)
Specimen of X. volvulus (2nd row from bottom) source ↗

Xyleborus volvulus is a species of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae.12 It is found in North America.23

Xyleborus volvulus beetles are found in all tropical and subtropical climates, mostly in Mexico. Their distribution is limited by cold (absent from higher elevations) and low humidity (absent from desert regions) conditions.

References

References

  1. "Xyleborus volvulus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. "Xyleborus volvulus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  3. Jansen MA, Franz NM (2015). "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys 528: 1-133.
  • Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links

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  1. “Bark and Ambrosia Beetles Of.” Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of, Xyleborus Volvulus (F. 1775), www.barkbeetles.info/regional_chklist_target_species.php?lookUp=2179.