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Definition of Family ipidae
1. Noun. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Genus Scolytus, Scolytus, Dendroctonus, Genus Dendroctonus, Bark Beetle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ipidae
Literary usage of Family ipidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family ipidae (formerly Scolytidae) (Bark beetles or Engraver beetles). The members
of this family are borers and nearly all attack the inner bark or wood ..."
2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"Swaine, JM—New sps. of the family Ipidae [7 new], 4, 1916, 181-92. Wickham, HF—New
fossil C. from the Florissant beds [many new], 350, vii, No. 3, 20 pp. ..."
3. New Species of Hemiptera Chiefly from California by Edward Payson Van Duzee (1918)
"FC Fall of Pasadena worked up the snout-beetles then in our possession; Mr.
Ralph Hopping of Berkeley has revised the family Ipidae comprising the bark ..."
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