Fruit sapwood ( Latin: Scolytus mali ) is a species of weevil beetles from the subfamily of bark beetles . Distributed in Europe , in the North Caucasus and Western Siberia [2] .
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Description
The body length of adult insects is 3-4.5 mm [1] . The body is red-brown, shiny. Head and pronotum dark brown, almost black [2] .
Ecology
They live mainly in orchards , but also in forest stands. They feed on fruit trees, including apple trees , plums, and some others, less often mountain ash , elm ( Ulmus effusa , Japanese elm ), hawthorn ( five-pistil hawthorn, common hawthorn ), cotoneaster multiflorous , pyracantha bright red . Damage trunks and thick branches of trees, both dumped and weakened standing, rarely healthy trees [2] .
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Systematics and synonymy (English) . BioLib. Date of treatment December 10, 2011.
- β 1 2 3 Stark V.N. Bark beetles // Fauna of the USSR. Coleoptera insects. - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1952. - T. 31. - 464 p. - (New Series No. 49).