Xyleborini are a tribe of ambrosia beetles (alternatively called subtribe Xyleborina of tribe Scolytini), highly specialized weevils of the subfamily Scolytinae. Much of the ambrosia beetle fauna in Eurasia and the Americas consists of Xyleborini species. Some Xyleborini are notorious invasive species.
Most genera are small or even monotypic, and contain 1-8 dozen species. The type genus Xyleborus contains over 500 species, but it is an unnatural grouping of species which are not closely related. Key for the world genera of Xyleborini available through a North Carolina State University website.
Genera
Genera include:
- Amasa <small>Lea 1893</small>
- Ambrosiodmus <small>Hopkins, 1915</small> (sometimes included in Xyleborus)
- Ambrosiophilus <small>Hulcr & Cognato 2009</small>
- Ancipitis
- Anisandrus <small>Ferrari 1867</small>
- Arixyleborus <small>Hopkins 1915</small>
- Beaverium <small>Hulcr & Cognato 2009</small>
- Cnestus <small>Sampson 1911</small>
- Coptoborus <small>Hopkins, 1915</small>
- Coptodryas <small>Hopkins 1915</small>
- Cryptoxyleborus <small>Schedl, 1937</small>
- Cyclorhipidion <small>Hagedorn, 1912</small> - includes Terminalinus
- Debus <small>Hulcr & Cognato 2010</small>
- Diuncus <small>Hulcr & Cognato 2009</small>
- Dryocoetoides <small>Hopkins 1915</small>
- Dryoxylon <small>Bright & Rabaglia 1999</small>
- Eccoptopterus <small>Motschulsky 1863</small>
- Eggersanthus
- Euwallacea <small>Hopkins, 1915</small> - often included in Xyleborus
- Fortiborus <small>Hulcr & Cognato, 2010</small>
- Fraudatrix <small>Cognato, Smith and Beaver, 2020</small>
- Hadrodemius <small>Wood 1980</small>
- Immanus <small>Hulcr and Cognato, 2013</small>
- Leptoxyleborus <small>Wood 1980</small>
- Melanesicus
- Microperus <small>Wood 1980</small>
- Planiculus <small>Hulcr & Cognato, 2010</small>
- Pseudowebbia <small>Browne 1962</small>
- Sampsonius <small>Eggers 1935</small>
- Schedlia <small>Browne 1950</small>
- Stictodex <small>Hulcr & Cognato 2010</small>
- Streptocranus <small>Schedl 1939</small>
- Taphrodasus <small>Wood 1980</small>
- Taurodemus <small>Wood 1980</small>
- Terminalinus
- Theoborus <small>Hopkins 1915</small>
- Tricosa <small>Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020</small>
- Truncaudum <small>Hulcr & Cognato, 2010</small>
- Wallacellus
- Webbia <small>Hopkins 1915</small>
- Xyleborinus <small>Reitter, 1913</small>
- Xyleborus (possibly paraphyletic with Cyclorhipidion)
- Xylosandrus <small>Reitter, 1913</small>
References
Footnotes
- Genus list from (2004): PEET Xyleborini - Genus list. Retrieved 2008-JUL-08.