Scolytus multistriatus
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Scolytus multistriatus | |
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Scolytus multistriatus lateral | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Scolytus |
Species: | S. multistriatus
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Binomial name | |
Scolytus multistriatus (Marsham, 1802)
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Synonyms | |
Ips multistriatus |
Scolytus multistriatus, the European elm bark beetle or smaller European elm bark beetle, is a bark beetle species in the genus Scolytus. In Europe, while S. multistriatus acts as vector of the Dutch elm disease, caused by the Ascomycota Ophiostoma ulmi, it is much less effective than the large elm bark beetle, S. scolytus.
S. multistriatus uses vanillin and syringaldehyde as signals to find a host tree during oviposition.[1]
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Scolytus multistriatus, larvae imprint in Ulmus glabra
References
External links
- Media related to Scolytus multistriatus at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Scolytus multistriatus at Wikispecies
- "Scolytus_multistriatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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