Dendroctonus

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 (fungus) and Pichia that aid in digestion and pheromone production.[1]

D. micans

Dendroctonus
Dendroctonus ponderosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Tribe:	Hylesinini
Genus:	Dendroctonus Erichson, 1836
Species
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Species include:

• Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
• Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
• 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 simplex - eastern larch beetle
• Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus vitei

References

1. Rivera, Flor N .; González, Evelyn; Gómez, Zulema; Hernández-Rodríguez, Cesar; Berkov, Amy; Zúñiga, Gerardo. "Gut-associated yeast in bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)" (PDF). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 98: 325–342.

External links

• "Dendroctonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Dendroctonus Species of the Western United States