SCOLYTINAE Latreille, 1807
(bark and ambrosia beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilySCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)
FamilyCURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
Division Gonatoceri (true weevils)
SuperfamilyCURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Balachowsky, A. 1949 *** Coléoptères Scolytides ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 50, 320pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Duffy, E.A.J. 1953 Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Vol 5, Part 15, 20pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) 1981 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 10 (Bruchidae, Anthribidae, Scolytidae, Platypodidae & Curculionidae) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 10, 295pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Grüne, S. 1979 Handbuch zur Bestimmung der europäischen Borkenkäfer - Brief Illustrated Key to European Bark Beetle 182pp, Schaper
Pfeffer, A. 1995 Zentral- und westpaläarktische Borken- und Kernkäfer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Platypodidae) 310pp, Pro Entomologia

SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 134 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SCOLYTINAE (bark and ambrosia beetles)
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