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Engraver Beetles
Ips
Ips is a genus of beetles in the family Curculionidae, the true weevils. They are bark beetles, members of the subfamily Scolytinae. Species are distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Some are known as introduced species in Australia and Africa. Many species are pests of forest trees, especially pines and spruces. They are known commonly as engraver beetles, ips engraver beetles, and pine engravers.
37 branches of this genus, most-observed first
European spruce bark beetle
speciesIps typographus
Eastern Fivespined Ips
speciesIps grandicollis
Sixspined Ips
speciesIps calligraphus
Six-Toothed Spruce Bark Beetle
speciesIps sexdentatus
Pine Engraver
speciesIps pini
Sharp-Toothed Bark Beetle
speciesIps acuminatus
Small Southern Pine Engraver
speciesIps avulsus
California Fivespined Ip
speciesIps paraconfusus
Small Spruce Bark Beetle
speciesIps amitinus
Large Larch Bark Beetle
speciesIps cembrae
Pinyon Engraver Beetle
speciesIps confusus
Double-spined bark beetle
speciesIps duplicatus
Northern Engraver Beetle
speciesIps borealis
Monterey Pine Bark Weevil
speciesIps mexicanus
Ips perterbatus
speciesIps perterbatus
Ips apache
speciesIps apache
Perrot's Bark Weevil
speciesIps perroti
Ips bonanseai
speciesIps bonanseai
Ips hoppingi
speciesIps hoppingi
Arizona Five-Spined Ips
speciesIps lecontei
Ips nobilis
speciesIps nobilis
Ips schmutzenhoferi
speciesIps schmutzenhoferi
Ips hunteri
speciesIps hunteri
Intact Bark Weevil
speciesIps integer
Ips latidens
speciesIps latidens
Mountain Bark Weevil
speciesIps montanus
Ips pilifrons
speciesIps pilifrons
Forgery Bark Weevil
speciesIps plastographus
Western Engraver
speciesIps tridens
Emarginate Ips
speciesIps emarginatus
Ips concinnus
speciesIps concinnus
Ips cribricollis
speciesIps cribricollis
Larch Bark Beetle
speciesIps subelongatus
Ips frumentaria
speciesIps frumentaria
Ips utahensis
speciesIps utahensis
Wood's Bark Weevil
speciesIps woodi
Northern Spruce Engraver
speciesIps perturbatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 177659.