Boridae
Encyclopedia
The family Boridae is a small group of beetle
s with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name conifer bark beetles.
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...
s with no vernacular common name, though recent authors have coined the name conifer bark beetles.
Taxonomy
- Genus Boros Herbst, 1797
- Boros schneideri (Panzer, 1795)
- Boros unicolor Say, 1827
- Genus Lecontia Champion, 1889
- Lecontia discicollis LeConte, 1850
- Genus Synercticus Newman, 1842
- Synercticus heteromerus Newman, 1842