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n. - Genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers.

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  • However, by the end of the study, 30% of the white spruce forest in the study area had been killed by spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis), which was probably...
  • Serious insect pests are Dendroctonus (in Central American natural populations); Ips beetles; the pine aphid; leaf-cutting ants; termites; the Australian case moth,...
  • The phylogeny of host use in Dendroctonus bark beetles (Scolytidae).
  • Dendroctonus ponderosae, the Canadian cousin of the Israeli Phloeosinus armatus and Phloeosinus aubei.
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