Platypus, Xylosandrus, Xyloborus... Herbst, 1793, Triplehorn and Johnson, 2005
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P. abietes P. compositus P. flavicornis P. parallelus P. pini P. quadridentatus P. wilsoni etc... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Myxozoa (slime animals) Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus) Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - spiders,scorpions, etc. ... Classes & Orders See taxonomy Insects are invertebrate animals of the Class Insecta, the largest and (on land) most widely-distributed taxon within the phylum Arthropoda. ... Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are the most gayest faggity dumb crack head diverse group of insects. ... Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743 - 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist. ...
Ambrosia beetles are woodboring beetles in the subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae of the weevil family, Curculionidae. They attack weakened or recently cut trees, feeding on a fungus which they bring to the tree, carrying the fungal spores in special structures called mycangia, and inoculating the trees as they attack them. They attack both pine species and hardwoods, infrequently attacking healthy trees. Genera See text. ... Subgroups See Subgroups of Curculionidae. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Deuteromycota A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. ... Species About 115. ... Beech is a typical temperate zone hardwood The term hardwood designates wood from angiosperm trees. ...
The beetle derives its name from its curious cultivation of a succulent fungus, called ambrosia. Ambrosia beetles bore deep though minute galleries into trees and timber cultivating the fungus, on which the insects and their larvae feed.
Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing power of honey (see further Nectar).
The name Ambrosia was also applied by Dioscorides and Pliny to certain herbs, and has been retained in modern botany for a genus of plants from which it has been extended to the group of dicotyledons called Ambrosiaceae, including Ambrosia, Xanthium and Iva, all annual herbaceous plants represented in America.
Ambrosiabeetles bore deep though minute galleries into trees and timber, and the wood-dust provides a bed for the growth of the fungus, on which the insects and larvae feed.
Ambrosiabeetles are members of the insect tribe Xyleborini and are known for attacking various woody plants, causing some limb and stem dieback and sometimes plant death.
Research is continuing to evaluate the degree of avocado variety susceptibility to attack by the redbay ambrosiabeetle and the extent of damage or death from the laurel wilt fungus.
Mayfield III, A.E. The Redbay AmbrosiaBeetle, Xylegorus glabratus Eichhoff (Scolytinae: Curculionidae).
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