Scolytus schevyrewi, the banded elm bark beetle, is a 3–4 mm long elm bark beetle species in the genus Scolytus native from Asia and accidentally introduced to North America.[2] It is a vector of the Dutch elm disease, caused by the Ascomycota Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. In North America, it is displacing both the native elm bark beetle and the previously introduced smaller European elm bark beetle, which are becoming less common in their range with the expansion of S. schevyrewi.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Scolytus |
| Species: | S. schevyrewi
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| Scolytus schevyrewi (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1902)[1]
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References
edit- ^ Semenov; Petrovich, A (1902). "New bark beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) for the fauna of Russian and central Asia". Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 2: 265–266.
- ^ Старк, BH (1952). фауна СССР. Жесткокрылые. Tom 31. Короеды (PDF). Издательство академии наук СССР (Stark, V.N. (1952) Fauna of the USSR. Coleoptera. Vol. 31. Bark-beetles. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR). pp. 100–101.
- ^ Veilleux, Jonathan (2012). Establishment of Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the prairies: life cycle, hosts and impact.