| Xyleborus | |
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| Xyleborus dryographus (female) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Scolytinae |
| Tribe: | Xyleborini |
| Genus: | Xyleborus Eichhoff, 1864 |
| Species | |
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About 535, see text |
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| Synonyms | |
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Anaeretus Duges, 1887 Anisandrus Ferrari, 1867 Boroxylon Hopkins, 1915 Heteroborips Reitter, 1913 Mesoscolytus Broun, 1904 Notoxyleborus Schedl, 1934 Phloeotrogus Motschulsky, 1863 Progenius Blandford, 1896 Xyleborips Reitter, 1913 |
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With over 500 species, Xyleborus is by far the largest bark beetle genus in the tribe Xyleborini.[1]
Xyloborus nowadays includes a high number of formerly independent genera. In addition, the genera Coptoborus, Cryptoxyleborus and Euwallacea are often included here too; this may be correct as they seems to be very close relatives. Less often, Ambrosiodmus, Premnobius and Xyleborinus are included in Xyleborus but they seem to be well distinct; Premnobius might even not belong to the Xyleborini at all.
The different species can be best told apart from the gallery burrows they build and from what trees they infest. A rather notorious member is X. dispar which causes pear blight.