Ipini

Ipini
Ips amitinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Scolytinae
Tribe: Ipini

Ipini is the tribe of bark beetles which includes the stenographer beetle Ips sexdentatus and the typographer beetle Ips typhographus, so-called because of the distinctive patterns left in dead trees by their egg-laying and larval tunnels under the bark.

The stenographer beetle has another common name in French: le catchote.