ipidae (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Ipidae*:
NOUN	animal	Ipidae, Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, family Ipidae	large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles

English > *Ipidae*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest / forest and fruit trees.
Synonyms	Scolytidae, family Scolytidae, family 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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