Dendroctonus rufipennis

TaxID: 77170

Basic Information

Dendroctonus rufipennis

Spruce Beetle, spruce beetle

Dendroctonus rufipennis, the great spruce bark beetle, is a species of bark beetle native to British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Northern Manitoba, the Yukon, Alaska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Maine. They can seriously damage forests of spruce trees including Engelmann, White, Sitka, and Colorado blue spruce. Adults average 4 to 7 mm in length.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Dendroctonus

rufipennis

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Dendroctonus rufipennis
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(c) Matt Bowser@BY
Dendroctonus rufipennis
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(c) Eric Knopf@BY-NC
Dendroctonus rufipennis
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(c) Kate MacQuarrie@BY-NC
Dendroctonus rufipennis
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(c) Jacques Regad@BY
Dendroctonus rufipennis
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(c) Julie Wilder@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (9 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Quarantine Status (11 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Armenia Absent —
Belarus Absent —
EPPO A1 Absent —
Croatia Quarantine pests —
India Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Kazakhstan A1 list 2017
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Morocco Quarantine pest 2018
Tunisia Quarantine pests 2012
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Distribution (4 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

3
Present
1
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Canada Present
Mexico Present —
United States of America Present
South Africa Absent —

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

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature