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]
Dendroctonus | |
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Dendroctonus ponderosae | |
Scientific 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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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 from the 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. ISSN 0098-0331. PMID 33405044. S2CID 230783201 – via ProQuest.
External links
edit- 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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