- Xyleborus
Taxobox
name = "Xyleborus"
image_caption = "Xyleborus dryographus " (female)
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum =Hexapoda
classis =Insect a
subclassis =Pterygota
infraclassis =Neoptera
superordo =Endopterygota
ordo = Coleoptera
subordo =Polyphaga
infraordo =Cucujiformia
superfamilia =Curculionoidea
familia =Curculionidae
subfamilia =Scolytinae
tribus =Xyleborini
genus = "Xyleborus"
genus_authority = Eichhoff, 1864
subdivision_ranks =Species
subdivision =About 535, see text
synonyms ="Anaeretus" Duges, 1887"Anisandrus" Ferrari, 1867"Boroxylon" Hopkins, 1915"Heteroborips" Reitter, 1913"Mesoscolytus" Broun, 1904"Notoxyleborus" Schedl, 1934"Phloeotrogus" Motschulsky, 1863"Progenius" Blandford, 1896"Xyleborips" Reitter, 1913With over 500
species , "Xyleborus" is by far the largestbark beetle genus in the tribeXyleborini .MSU (2004)]"Xyloborus" nowadays includes a high number of formerly independent genera. In addition, the genera "
Coptoborus ", "Cryptoxyleborus " and "Euwallacea " are often included here too; this may be correct as they seems to be very close relatives. Less often, "Ambrosiodmus ", "Premnobius " and "Xyleborinus " are included in "Xyleborus" but they seem to be well distinct; "Premnobius" might even not belong to the Xyleborini at all.The different species can be best told apart from the gallery burrows they build and from what trees they infest. A rather notorious member is "X. dispar" which causes
pear blight .* "
Xyleborus affinis " Eichhoff, 1868
* "Xyleborus atratus " Eichhoff, 1875
* "Xyleborus californicus " Wood, 1975 - may belong in "Cyclorhipidion "
* "Xyleborus celsus " Eichhoff, 1868
* "Xyleborus cryptographus " (Ratzeburg, 1837)
* "Xyleborus dispar " (Fabricius, 1792)
* "Xyleborus dryographus " (Ratzeburg, 1837)
* "Xyleborus eurygraphus " (Ratzeburg, 1837)
* "Xyleborus ferrugineus " (Fabricius, 1801)
* "Xyleborus glabratus " Eichhoff, 1877
* "Xyleborus horridus " Eichhoff, 1869
* "Xyleborus impressus " Eichhoff, 1868
* "Xyleborus intrusus " Blandford, 1898
* "Xyleborus inurbanus " (Broun, 1880)
* "Xyleborus monographus " (Fabricius, 1792)
* "Xyleborus obesus " LeConte, 1868
* "Xyleborus pelliculosus " Eichhoff, 1878 - may belong in "Cyclorhipidion"
* "Xyleborus perforans " (Wollaston, 1857)
* "Xyleborus pfeilii " (Ratzeburg, 1837)
* "Xyleborus planicollis " Zimmermann, 1868
* "Xyleborus pubescens " Zimmermann, 1868
* "Xyleborus sayi " (Hopkins, 1915)
* "Xyleborus similis " Ferrari, 1867
* "Xyleborus viduus " Eichhoff, 1878
* "Xyleborus volvulus " (Fabricius, 1775)
* "Xyleborus xylographus " (Say, 1826)Footnotes
References
* (2004): PEET Xyleborini - [http://xyleborini.tamu.edu/browse.php?genus=Xyleborus "Xyleborus" species list] . Retrieved 2008-JUL-08.
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