The change in the structure of hydrogen bonds in elm wood due to damage by European elm bark beetle Scolytus multistriatus (Marsham) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

Characterization of two non-native invasive bark beetles, Scolytus schevyrewi and Scolytus multistriatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov, the banded elm bark beetle, and S. multistriatus Marsham, the smaller European elm bark beetle, are morphologically similar. Reliance on adult external morphological characters for identification can be problematic because of wide withinspecies variability and the need for good-quality specimens. The inability to identify developmental stages can also hamper early-d...

The Banded Elm Bark Beetle, Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in North America: a taxonomic review and modifications to the Wood (1982) key to the species of Scolytus Geoffroy in North and Central America

In 2003, an Asian bark beetle, Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), the banded elm bark beetle, was detected for the first time in North America. This paper modifies the Wood (1982) key to the species of Scolytus Geoffroy to enable identification of Scolytus schevyrewi in North and Central America. Variation of diagnostic characters in Scolytus schevyrewi is disc...

Exotic Invasive Elm Bark Beetle, Scolytus kirschii, Detected in South Africa

A taxonomic monograph of Nearctic Scolytus Geoffroy (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

The Nearctic bark beetle genus Scolytus Geoffroy was revised based in part on a molecular and morphological phylogeny. Monophyly of the native species was tested using mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear (28S, CAD, ArgK) genes and 43 morphological characters in parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. Parsimony analyses of molecular and combined datasets provided mixed results while Bayesian a...

Tarsonemid mites (Acari, Heterostigmatina) found in association with bark beetles (Insecta, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in Iran

* Correspondence: [email protected] Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are one of the most important pests of woody plants, with immense economic impact, attacking unthrifty, broken, over-mature, dying, or, rarely, even healthy hosts (Wood, 1982). Among bark beetle species, the larger European elm beetle, Scolytus scolytus (Fabricius, 1775), the smaller European elm beetle, ...