scolytidae

1. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles;
   Very destructive to forest and fruit trees (synset 102182081)
   is a type of: arthropod family - any of the arthropods
   member holonym:

   • genus scolytus, scolytus - type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles
   • dendroctonus, genus dendroctonus - genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers
   • bark beetle - small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
   belongs to: coleoptera, order coleoptera - beetles
   same as: family ipidae, family scolytidae, ipidae

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