genus dendroctonus

English Thesaurus

1. genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	dendroctonus rufipennis, spruce bark beetle,
definition	:	small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family ipidae, family scolytidae, ipidae, scolytidae,
definition	:	large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees (noun.animal)