Dendroctonus

Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has a symbiotic relationship with many different yeasts, particularly those in the genera Candida and Pichia that aid in digestion and pheromone production.

Species include:

• Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
• Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus armandi - Chinese white pine beetle
• Dendroctonus barberi - southwestern pine beetle
• Dendroctonus brevicomis - western pine beetle
• Dendroctonus frontalis - southern pine beetle
• Dendroctonus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine beetle
• Dendroctonus mesoamericanus - Mesoamerican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus mexicanus - smaller Mexican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus micans - great spruce bark beetle
• Dendroctonus murrayanae - lodgepole pine beetle
• Dendroctonus parallelocollis - larger Mexican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus ponderosae - mountain pine beetle
• Dendroctonus pseudotsugae - Douglas-fir beetle
• Dendroctonus punctatus - Allegheny spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus rufipennis - spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus rhizophagus - TBD
• Dendroctonus simplex - eastern larch beetle
• Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus vitei

References

External links

• Media related to Dendroctonus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Dendroctonus at Wikispecies
• "Dendroctonus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Dendroctonus Species of the Western United States