Ips beetles

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Ips engraver beetles Photo by Ladd Livingston, Idaho Department of Lands, Bugwood.org Taxonomy Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Hexapoda (including Insecta) Order: Coleoptera Family: Curculionidae Genus: Ips Species: spp. Scientific Name Ips spp. De Geer 1775

Ips is a large genus of bark beetles, distributed throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere. They feed on the inner bark of pines, spruces and larches, and can cause extensive tree mortality.

Species

• Ips acuminatus (Gyllenhal) - engraver beetle
• Ips amitinus (Eichhoff, 1871) - eight-toothed spruce bark beetle
• Ips apache Lanier
• Ips avulsus (Eichhoff) - small southern pine engraver
• Ips calligraphus (Germar) - sixspined ips
• Ips cembrae (Heer) - large larch bark beetle
• Ips confusus (LeConte) - pinyon ips
• Ips duplicatus (Sahlberg) - northern bark beetle
• Ips emarginatus (LeConte) - emarginate ips
• Ips grandicollis (Eichhoff) - eastern fivespined ips
• Ips hunteri Swaine - spruce ips
• Ips integer Eichhoff, 1869 - bark beetle
• Ips latidens (LeConte) - bark beetle
• Ips lecontei Swaine - Arizona fivespined ips
• Ips mannsfeldi (Wachtl, 1879)
• Ips paraconfusus Lanier - California fivespined ips
• Ips perturbatus (Eichhoff) - northern spruce engraver
• Ips pini (Say) - pine engraver
• Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) - six-spined engraver beetle
• Ips subelongatus Motschulsky - larch engraver beetle
• Ips typographus (Linnaeus) - European spruce bark beetle

Further details

See also: Ips beetles in Georgia, USA