Scolytidae (family)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Arthropoda (phylum) > Hexapoda (subphylum) > Insecta (class) > Coleoptera (order)
Descripción
Members of a family containing over 2,000 species in around 25 genera of beetles, that are small, cylindrical in shape, brown or black in color, and bore into a tree to form an egg chamber. A few species are destructive to live trees, although most live in dead or dying wood.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- 小蠹蟲科 (科) [zh]
- xiǎo dù chóng kē [zh]
- xiao du chong ke [zh]
- hsiao tu ch'ung k'o [zh]
- bark beetles [en]
- bark beetle [en]
- bark-beetles [en]
- beetles, bark [en]
- engraver beetles [en]
- 小蠹科 [zh]
- 棘脛小蠹科 [zh]
- 木蠹蟲科 [zh]