NOUN | animal | family Ipidae, Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles |
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Meaning | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest / forest and fruit trees. | |
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Synonyms | Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae | |
Member of | Coleoptera, order Coleoptera | beetles |
Members | Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus | genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers |
Scolytus, genus Scolytus | type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles | |
bark beetle | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees | |
Broader | arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |
Spanish | escolítidos | |
Catalan | escolítids |
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