Dendroctonus frontalis

TaxID: 77161

Basic Information

Dendroctonus frontalis

Southern Pine Beetle, southern pine beetle

Dendroctonus frontalis, the southern pine beetle, often shortened to simply SPB, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. It has recently expanded its range to the northeastern United States, where it is considered an invasive species and has destroyed massive amounts of pine forest.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Dendroctonus

frontalis

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Dendroctonus frontalis
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(c) John@BY-NC
Dendroctonus frontalis
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(c) Jeff Eickwort@BY-NC
Dendroctonus frontalis
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(c) Jeff Eickwort@BY-NC
Dendroctonus frontalis
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(c) ophis@BY-NC
Dendroctonus frontalis
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(c) Erich G. Vallery@BY

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (38 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Drypetes natalensis Host
Drypetes natalensis var. leiogyna Host
Grewia asiatica Host
Picea abies Host
Picea glauca Host
Picea rubens Host
Pinus Host
Pinus bungeana Host
Pinus canariensis Host
Pinus caribaea Host
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Quarantine Status (12 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Cuba Absent —
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
EPPO A1 Absent —
Greece Quarantine pests —
Croatia Quarantine pests —
Jordan Absent 2013
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Panama Quarantine pests —
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Distribution (9 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

7
Present
2
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belize Present —
Guatemala Present —
Honduras Present —
Ireland Absent —
Israel Absent —
Mexico Present —
Nicaragua Present —
El Salvador Present —
United States of America Present

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_040113315.1 Chromosome 173 24829 24829 -
FASTA GFF3

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (350 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
MEUNH127-17 BOLD:ADG3363 COI-5P 637 Honduras 2017-01-17 14.3352, -88.2097
MEUNH126-17 BOLD:ADG3363 COI-5P 637 Honduras 2017-01-17 14.3352, -88.2097
MEUNH125-17 BOLD:ADG3363 COI-5P 637 Honduras 2017-01-17 14.3352, -88.2097
MEUNH110-17 BOLD:ADG3114 COI-5P 651 Honduras 2016-11-10 14.5825, -87.837
MEUNH107-17 BOLD:ADG3363 COI-5P 652 Honduras 2017-01-18 14.3456, -88.3677
MEUNH106-17 BOLD:ADG3363 COI-5P 615 Honduras 2017-01-17 14.3352, -88.2097
MEUNH105-17 BOLD:ADG3114 COI-5P 652 Honduras 2017-01-17 14.27, -88.2451
GBMNA46804-19 - COI-3P 817 - - -
GBMNA46803-19 - COI-3P 819 - - -
GBMNA46802-19 - COI-3P 798 - - -
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Literature