Belongs within: Scolytinae.
Scolytodes is an ecologically diverse group of bark beetles found in the American tropics (Wood 1986).
Characters (from Wood 1986): Antennal funicle six-segmented, club small, sutures present or not; eye oval, entire, finely faceted; pronotal asperities fine, if present; summit at middle or indefinite; basal margins of elytra marked by a fine raised line; elytral vestiture hairlike, usually sparse.
<==Scolytodes Ferrari 1867W86 (see below for synonymy) |--*S. laevigatusW86 |--S. atratus [=*Prionosceles atratus]W86 |--S. caudatusGC-P14 |--S. culcitatus [=*Epomadius culcitatus]W86 |--S. glaber [=*Hexacolus glaber]W86 |--S. guyanensis [=Hexacolus guyanensis]S00 |--S. levis [=Hexacolus levis; incl. *Ctenophorus laevigatus non Scolytodes laevigatus]W86 |--S. minutissimus [=*Hexacolinus minutissimus]W86 |--S. multistriatusW86 |--S. plumeriaeW86 |--S. schwarzi (Hopkins 1902)A02 [=*Erineophilus schwarziW86] `--S. striatus [=*Hylocurosoma striatum]W86
Scolytodes Ferrari 1867W86 [incl. Ctenophorus Chapuis 1869W86, Epomadius Blandford 1897W86, Erinophlius Hopkins 1902A02, Hexacolinus Schedl 1963W86, Hexacolus Eichhoff 1868W86, Hylocurosoma Eggers 1940W86, Prionosceles Blandford 1897W86]
*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.
[GC-P14] Gillett, C. P. D. T., A. Crampton-Platt, M. J. T. N. Timmermans, B. H. Jordal, B. C. Emerson & A. P. Vogler. 2014. Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Molecular Biology and Evolution 31 (8): 2223–2237.
[S00] Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects 2nd ed. CABI Publishing: Wallingford (UK).
[W86] Wood, S. L. 1986. A reclassification of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 10: 1–126.