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Bob Parks, Museum Collections: Coleoptera, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5540794

bark beetle (Coccotrypes carpophagus (Hornung, 1842)) (Hornung, 1842)

Photographer:
Bob Parks
Descriptor:
Adult(s)
Image view:
Lateral / Side
Description:
Collected from Sabal palmetto seeds in Coconut Grove, Florida in 1960. Determined by D.E. Bright. Originally identified as Coccotrypes carpophagus.
Image type:
Laboratory
Host:
cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex J.A. & J.H. Schultes)
Project:
Museum Collections: Coleoptera

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Collection:
C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University (CSUC)
Taxon Name:
Coccotrypes pygmaeus
Type specimen:
No
Specimen Condition:
Preserved, dried and Mounted
Identification Method:
Morphological Analysis - Visual
Image location:
, Photographed at USDA PPQ in Fort Collins

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Scolytinae
Tribe: Scolytini: Dryocoetina
Genus: Coccotrypes
Subject: Coccotrypes carpophagus (Hornung, 1842)

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Arecidae
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Sabal
Subject: Sabal palmetto (Walt.) Lodd. ex J.A. & J.H. Schultes
Node Affiliation:
USDA APHIS PPQ
Image uploaded:
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Image last updated:
Wednesday, May 3, 2023