Dendroctonus frontalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Dendroctonus
- Species
- Dendroctonus frontalis
- Scientific Name
- Dendroctonus frontalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dendroctonus frontalis
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.
...Dendroctonus frontalis in languages:
- English
- Southern Pine Beetle
- French
- Dendroctone méridional du pin
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dendroctonus adjunctus
- Dendroctonus approximatus
- Dendroctonus armandi
- Dendroctonus brevicomis
- Dendroctonus frontalis
- Dendroctonus jeffreyi
- Dendroctonus mesoamericanus
- Dendroctonus mexicanus
- Dendroctonus micans
- Dendroctonus monticolae
- Dendroctonus murrayanae
- Dendroctonus parallelocollis
- Dendroctonus ponderosae
- Dendroctonus pseudotsugae
- Dendroctonus punctatus
- Dendroctonus rhizophagus
- Dendroctonus rufipennis
- Dendroctonus simplex
- Dendroctonus terebrans
- Dendroctonus valens
- Dendroctonus vitei


























































































