eastern fivespined ips, Ips grandicollis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Image Number: 2163055

eastern fivespined ips
Ips grandicollis (Eichhoff, 1868)
Photographer:
Pest and Diseases Image Library,
Contact:
Ken Walker, Museum Victoria
Descriptor:
Feature(s)
Description:
posterior; Elytra terminate in a rounded or blunt slope (the declivity) which is concavely excavated with lateral margins dentate, all teeth on summit (I. grandicollis belongs to a group with 4 spines on the elytral declivity). They are distinguished from other bark beetles by their scooped-out posterior with 4 to 6 spines on each side; 67km N Brisbane, 8 Nov 1982, M. DeBaar & F.R. Wylie


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