Scolytus Geoffroy

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Scolytus Geoffroy ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae )

This genus can be distinguished by the single curved process in the outer margin of the protibiae, ascendant second abdominal ven- trite, and straight elytral lateral margins ( Smith & Cognato 2014; Bright 2019).Species within this genus are phloeophagous and colonize trunks or large branches where transverse parental galleries invade the cam- bial area ( Wood 2007). Scolytus multistriatus (Marsham) ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ), one of the most economically important species in this genus, caused severe impacts to Ulmus in the introduced distribution, where the pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi Brasier (Ophiostomata- ceae) has killed millions of American elms ( Furniss & Carolin 1977).