Ips beetles

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Taxonomy

Domain	Eukarya
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Subphylum	Hexapoda
Class	Insecta
Subclass	Pterygota
Infraclass	Neoptera
Order	Coleoptera
Suborder	Polyphaga
Infraorder	Cucujiformia
Superfamily	Curculionoidea
Family	Curculionidae
Subfamily	Scolytinae
Tribe	Ipini

Scientific Name

Ips

Scientific Name Synonyms

Ipsi

Common Name

Ips engraver beetles

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