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Definition of Scolytidae
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 Scolytidae
Literary usage of Scolytidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1907)
"... been very destructive in the Harz and other forest districts in Germany ; and P.
piceae, 111., on the silver-fir. FAMILY VII.—scolytidae (BARK-BEETLES). ..."
2. Forest Bulletin (1905)
"The attacks of Buprestidae, Cerambycidae and scolytidae are at times so bad that the
... The severe invasion of scolytidae from which these forests were ..."
3. Rhynchophora Or Weevils of North Eastern America by Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles William Leng (1916)
"scolytidae, by Reitter ... BLANDFORD, 1895—1905—scolytidae, Pt. 6. CHAMPION. ...
BLANDFORD, WFH—1894—Notes on scolytidae. ..."
4. Studies in Forestry: Being a Short Course of Lectures on the Principles of by John Nisbet (1894)
"... and certain scolytidae; but this would be met by the objection that in such
cases the damage depends on too many different factors (species and age of ..."