Xylosandrus Reitter

Gomez, Demian F., Johnson, Andrew J. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2020, Potential pest bark and ambrosia beetles from Cuba not present in the continental United States, Florida Entomologist 103 (1), pp. 96-96 : 96-

Xylosandrus Reitter ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae )

Species within Xylosandrus are distinguished by a stout body and widely separated procoxae. All species are xylomycetophagous colonizing a large variety of tree branches. The black twig borer, Xylosandrus compactus Wood & Bright ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ), is one of the most economically important species in this genus, because it attacks healthy twigs of living trees and twigs of a great variety of hosts. Xylosandrus crassiusculus Motschulski and Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (both Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) are major nursery pests.