Dendroctonus valens

TaxID: 77173

Basic Information

Dendroctonus valens

Red Turpentine Beetle, red turpentine beetle

Dendroctonus valens, also known as the red turpentine beetle, is a species of bark beetle characterized by a dark-reddish brown hue. It is native to forests across North and Central America. In its adult form, these beetles range from six to ten millimeters in length. A notable characteristic about them is their use of acoustic signals and chemical cues when engaging in what is a very complex mating process. While harmless in its native range, D. valens is a very destructive pest in China, where it was introduced and subsequently spread through wood shipments. It has killed more than six million pine trees across the country and biological control programs are currently being used to combat its deleterious effects on Chinese ecology.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Dendroctonus

valens

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Tom Murray@BY-NC
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(c) Trevor Van Loon@BY
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(c) Tom Murray@BY-NC
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(c) unknown@CC0

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (48 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (9 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Armenia Absent —
Belarus Absent —
China Quarantine pest 2021
Cuba Absent —
EPPO A1 Absent —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Kazakhstan A1 list 2017
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
New Zealand Quarantine pests —

Distribution (9 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

8
Present
1
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belize Present —
Canada Present
China Present
Guatemala Present —
Honduras Present —
Mexico Present —
Nicaragua Present —
United States of America Present
United States of America Absent

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_024550625.1 Scaffold 322 985 1658 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR12446939 whole adult - - 27004005 -
SRR12446940 whole adult - - 27824809 -
SRR12446941 whole adult - - 25095705 -

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature