Phloeotribus

Belongs within: Scolytinae.

Phloeotribus is a genus of monogamous, phloeophagous bark beetles found in the Holarctic, South America and Australia (Wood 1986).

Characters (from Wood 1986): Frons sexually dimorphic, male variously impressed, female flat to convex; eye entire; funicle five-segmented, club almost non-existent to strongly asymmetrical, deeply divided into three movable sublammelate segmentes, ventral or lateral margin of each antennal club segment often weakly to profoundly extended into a sublamellate process; lateral margins of pronotum rounded; procoxae contiguous; lateral margin of protibia with several socketed teeth, none strongly projecting beyond others (one exception); metatergum fused to its postnotum.

<==Phloeotribus Latreille 1796W86 (see below for synonymy)
    |--P. scarabaeoides [=Scolytus scarabaeoides; incl. Hylesinus oleae, *Phloeotribus oleae]W86
    |--P. brevicollis [=Bostrichus brevicollis; incl. *Comesiella sicula]W86
    |--P. caucasicusW86
    |--P. championi [=*Eulytocerus championi]W86
    |--P. crenatus [=*Elzearius crenatus]W86
    |--P. liminarus (Harris 1852)A02
    |--P. nubilus [=*Neophloeotribus nubilus]W86
    |--P. perfoliatus [=*Phloeophthorus perfoliatus]W86
    |--P. pilulaW86
    |--P. puberulus [=*Dryotomus puberulus, *Dryotomicus puberulus]W86
    |--P. rhododactylusW86
    |--P. setulosusW86
    `--P. spinulosus [=Phloeophthorus spinulosus, *Phthorophloeus spinulosus]W86

Phloeotribus Latreille 1796^W86 [=Phloiotribus^W86; incl. Comesiella DelGuercio 1925^A02, Dryotomicus Wood 1962^W86, Dryotomus Chapuis 1869^W86, Elzearius Guillebeau 1893^W86, Eulytocerus Blandford 1897^W86, Neophloeotribus Eggers 1943^W86, Phloeophthorus Wollaston 1854^W86, Phthorophloeus Rey 1885^A02]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[A02] Anderson, R. S. 2002. Curculionidae Latreille 1802. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 722–815. CRC Press.

[W86] Wood, S. L. 1986. A reclassification of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 10: 1–126.