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Banded elm bark beetle
Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Scolytini)

Status
Exotic (absent from Australia)

Dorsal view female Zoomify

Caption: China - 2005 ex wooden pallett

Source: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museum Victoria

Adult body length 3-4mm, body cylindrical, shining, with reddish-brown antennae and legs and dark brown or black body, often with reddish-brown, femorea often with over half of the length dark black with apices brown; elytra with a dark transverse median band; apex of leytra extends well beyond end of abdomen, ventral part of abdomen steeply ascends to meet elytra; tubercle present on second abdominal sternite which is variable in shape and position but not at anterior of second sternite; no teeth on posterolateral margibs of abdominal sternites 2-4; short, recumbant setae on abdominal sternites 3-5; three rows of stout, long, discal elytral setae about 2 x longer than the width of the intervals between rows of elytral punctures.

Differences between:

Character S. multistriatus S. schevyrewi

Body length 2-3mm 3-4mm

Declivity Single spine Single ventral spine

on 2^nd sternite on 2^nd sternite

anteriorly posteriorly

spine elongate, spine short,

narrowed broadly concial

lateral teeth no lateral teeth

on sterna 2,3,4 on sterna 2,3,4

Gallery Symmetrical Asymmetrical

Larval mines larval mine

Do not cross do cross

Sources:

See weblinks for Screening Guide

PaDIL Links:
almond bark beetle (Scolytus amygdali)
White beech bark beetle (Scolytus carpini)
elm bark beetle (Scolytus ensifer)
European oak bark beetle (Scolytus intricatus)
Kirsch bark beetle (Scolytus kirschii)
middle elm tree split bark beetle (Scolytus laevis)
Larger shothole borer (Scolytus mali)
European elm bark beetle (Scolytus multistriatus)
Elm bark beetle (Scolytus pygmaeus)
The birch sapwood borer (Scolytus ratzeburgi)
Shothole Borer (Scolytus rugulosus)
Large elm beetle (Scolytus scolytus)
bark beetle (Scolytus sulcifrons)

Specimen contact point: AQIS - Brisbane

Citation: Walker, K. (2007) Banded elm bark beetle (Scolytus schevyrewi) Pest and Diseases Image Library. Updated on 7/10/2007 12:27:52 PM. Available online: http://www.padil.gov.au

Created Date: 12/21/2005 2:39:54 PM

Last Updated: 7/10/2007 12:27:52 PM

Diagnostic Images
Abdomen	Elytra	Head Front	Head Side
Pronotum	Thorax Side
Overview Images
Dorsal	Lateral	Posterior	Ventral
Other Images
Dorsal view male	Head front male	Lateral view male	Posterior view male
Sternal characters