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Pityogenes chalcographus
The six-toothed spruce beetle, Pityogenes chalcographus is a bark beetle and a serious pest of commercial forestry of Norway spruce trees in Europe.
The adults burrow and mate in the phloem of the tree. The females lay eggs there, which hatch into larvae that each make a burrow, forming galleries which damage the phloem; in sufficient numbers, the damage can kill the tree.
From the article Six-toothed spruce beetle on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus described the beetle as Dermestes chalcographus in 1767, in the 12th edition of his book Systema Naturae. In 1888, the French entomologist Ernest Marie Louis Bedel renamed the species when he erected the new genus Pityogenes.
Wikipedia: “Taxonomic history”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 547711.