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Lesser spruce shoot beetle
Hylurgops palliatus (Gyllenhal) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Hylesinini)

Status
Exotic (absent from Australia)

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Caption: Germany - Beskiden, V. Zoufal

Source: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museum Victoria

Adult body length approx 2.5-3.3mm; elytral apex rounded, not excavated, and without marginal teeth, elytral basal margin raised with series of marginal flattened granules (crenulations), elytra with scalelike vestiture present from base to apex, more numerous on apical third, elytrae with uniseriate rows of dots (ie. interstial tubercles in a single row); pronotum usually unarmed and with an anterior constriction, head usually visible from above; head, legs and ventral part of the body is black, while pronotum and elytrae are brownish-red.

Source:

See weblink Bark beetles of North America

PaDIL Links:
Bark beetle (Hylurgops glabratus)
bark beetle (Hylurgops rugipennis pinifex)

Specimen contact point: Amsterdam Zoological Museum

Citation: Walker, K. (2008) Lesser spruce shoot beetle (Hylurgops palliatus) Pest and Diseases Image Library. Updated on 5/6/2008 4:43:44 PM. Available online: http://www.padil.gov.au

Created Date: 7/10/2006 9:51:59 PM

Last Updated: 5/6/2008 4:43:44 PM

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Elytra	Head Front	Head Side	Pronotum
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