SCOLYTINAE Latreille, 1807
(bark and ambrosia beetles)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Dendroctonus micans Great Spruce Bark Beetle	Species			1 ident. refs
Hylastes a genus of bark or ambrosia beetles	Genus	1 subtaxa	8 images
Ips a genus of bark or ambrosia beetles	Genus			1 ident. refs
Scolytinae (unidentified) Unidentified Bark and Ambrosia Beetles	Unidentified		1 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subfamily	SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)
Family	CURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
Division	Gonatoceri (true weevils)
Superfamily	CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

SCOLYTINAE is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Curculionidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Balachowsky, A.	1949	* Coléoptères Scolytides *(Superseded)	Faune de France, Faune No 50, 320pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Duffy, E.A.J.	1953	Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae	Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Vol 5, Part 15, 20pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)	1981	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 10 (Bruchidae, Anthribidae, Scolytidae, Platypodidae & Curculionidae)	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 10, 295pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Grüne, S.	1979	Handbuch zur Bestimmung der europäischen Borkenkäfer - Brief Illustrated Key to European Bark Beetle	182pp, Schaper
Pfeffer, A.	1995	Zentral- und westpaläarktische Borken- und Kernkäfer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Platypodidae)	310pp, Pro Entomologia

SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CURCULIONIDAE
(weevils)

CURCULIONOIDEA
(weevils and allied beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 134 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

SCOLYTINAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)