Scolytodes schwarzi
Wood & Bright, 1992
Scolytodes schwarzi is a bark beetle described by Wood & Bright in 1992, belonging to the Scolytodes within the weevil Curculionidae ( Scolytinae). It is distributed across the Caribbean, Middle America, and North America. As a member of Scolytodes, it is part of a genus of small ambrosia beetles that typically colonize dead or dying wood.
Pronunciation
How to pronounce Scolytodes schwarzi: //skəˈlaɪtoʊdiːz ˈʃvɑrtsi//
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Distribution
Caribbean, Middle America, and North America
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Taxonomic note
The Scolytodes is placed within the Scolytinae (bark and ambrosia beetles), a group historically treated as the separate but now universally recognized as a derived lineage within Curculionidae. The epithet 'schwarzi' likely honors a person, though the etymology is not documented in the available sources.
Data limitations
No specific biological information (appearance, , associations, or ) for S. schwarzi is available in the provided sources. The Scolytodes contains approximately 200 described of small ambrosia beetles, most of which are poorly known biologically.
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- Meloidae Holdings | Entomology Research Museum
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