Dendroctonus

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Dendroctonus - genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifersgenus Dendroctonusarthropod genus - a genus of arthropodsfamily Ipidae, family Scolytidae, Ipidae, Scolytidae - large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit treesDendroctonus rufipennis, spruce bark beetle - small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree; "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"