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Home of the Database of Insects and their Food Plants © Roger Key Family   Curculionidae Sub Family   Scolytinae Description   bark and ambrosia beetles; a sub-family of true weevils Background to Family   Wood-dwelling weevils, mostly less than 5mm long, which lack the distinctive rostrum of other weevil sub-families. The larvae develop in galleries in or beneath bark, or deeper in the wood. Adult bark beetles will carry out 'maturation' feeding on shoots and foliage. The 'ambrosia' beetles have a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia fungi (Ophiostomatales), upon which the larvae develop. Spores are carried by adult females to new host trees, and the fungus develops in the larval galleries. Different groups of bark beetles show particular host associations, either with broadleaved (e.g. Scolytus) and coniferous trees (e.g. Ips, Pityogenes) or more rarely, woody plants (e.g. Phloeotribus rhododactylus on broom, Cytisus). There are serious economic and environmental pests, such as the numerous conifer feeders in forestry, which produce outbreaks on stressed trees. The large elm bark beetle (Scolytus scolytus) is the main vector of the fungi (Ophiostoma spp.) which cause Dutch elm disease.     © Roger Key No. taxa in DBIF   61 No. interactions   506 % interactions with British data   56% No. records   844 % taxa with British data   98% Notes   Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings. The Scolytinae was previously treated as a separate family.; ; Notes on Sources   Most recent source   1987 Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.   Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:44 Source   Lekander, B. * et al.(1977) Acta ent. Fenn. 32 1-36:22 Source   Svihra, P. & Volney, W.J.A.(1983) Can. Ent. (Entomol.) 115:5 513-522: Source   Lekander, B. * et al.(1977) Acta ent. Fenn. 32 1-36:12 Source   Richens, R.H. (1983) Elm :68 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:199 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:86 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:84 Source   Verdcourt, B.(1979) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 115 28-28:28 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:89 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:56 Source   Pedrosa-Macedo, J.H.(1979) Z. Angew. ent. 88 188-204:188 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:48 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:63 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:60 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:198 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:83 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:97 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:94 Source   Redfern, D.B. et al(1987) Pl. Path. 36:4 467-480:468 Source   Lekander, B. * et al.(1977) Acta ent. Fenn. 32 1-36:11 Source   Pedrosa-Macedo, J.H.(1978) Z. Angew. ent. 88 188-204:199 Source   Magema, M., Gaspar, Ch. & Wathelet, J.P.(1982) Proc. 5th Int. symp. Insect-plant relationships 401-401:401 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:76 Source   Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :2 Source   Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling, W.(1980) Mitt. Walde niedersachs. Landesforstverw. 33 4-183:118 Source   Kirby, S.E. & Fairhurst, C.P.(1983) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 60 29-39:30 Source   Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :8 Source   Allen, A.A.(1985) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 198 198-198:198 Source   Allen, A.A.(1969) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 105 245-249:248 Source   Duffy, E.A.J.(1953) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects V:15 1-20:10 Source   Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:93 Source   Duffy, E.A.J.(1953) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects V:15 1-20:12 Source   Atkins, P.M., O'Callaghan, D.P. & Kirby, S.(1981) Entomologist's Gaz. 32 280-280:280 Source   Webber, J.F. & Kirby, S.G.(1983) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 60 47-49:48 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:70 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:45 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:79 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:50 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:46 Source   Lekander, B. * et al.(1977) Acta ent. Fenn. 32 1-36:23 Source   Yates, M.G.(1984) Bull. Ent. Res. 74 569-579:570 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:86 Source   Duffy, E.A.J.(1953) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects V:15 1-20:6 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:94 Source   Lekander, B. * et al.(1977) Acta ent. Fenn. 32 1-36:13 Source   Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :6 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:87 Source   Duffy, E.A.J.(1953) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects V:15 1-20:13 Source   Pfeffer, A. & Zumr, V.(1983) Acta ent. bohemoslav. 80:6 401-412:403 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:71 Source   Balachowsky, A. (1949) Faune de France. Coleopteres Scolytides 50 1-320:91 Source   Kirby, S.E. & Fairhurst, C.P.(1983) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 60 29-39:32 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:49 Source   Munro, J.W.(1926) Bull. For. Commn, Lond. 8 1-77:59