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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Scolytinae |
| Tribe: | Hylesinini |
| Genus: | Hylurgopinus J.M.Swaine, 1918 |
| Species: | H. rufipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Hylurgopinus rufipes J.M.Swaine, 1918
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Hylurgopinus rufipes, the native elm bark beetle, is a species of elm bark beetles in the tribe Hylesinini (crenulate bark beetles). It is the only species in the genus Hylurgopinus. It is found in Canada and the United States. It is of particular importance as a vector of Dutch elm disease. It is brownish-red in color and its size ranges from 2.34 mm to 2.9 mm.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Eichhoff, WJ (1868). "Neue amerikanische Borkenkäfer-Gattungen und Arten. (Teil II)". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 12: 147 (Translated by EA Schwarz as: Echhhoff W. J. (1896), "Remarks on the synonymy of some North American scolytid beetles", Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 18: 605–610. Available at: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/13430/USNMP-18_1085_1896.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y).
- ^ a b Kaston, BJ (1936). "The morphology of the elm bark beetle, Hylurgopinus rufipes (Eichhoff)". Connecticut Experimental Station, New Haven, Bulletin 387: 613–650.
- ^ LeConte, JL (1868). "Appendix to the Synopsis of the Scolytidae of America north of Mexico". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. II: 170.
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