What is "dendroctonus"

Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America.

Species include:

• Dendroctonus adjunctus - roundheaded pine beetle
• Dendroctonus approximatus - Mexican pine beetle
• Dendroctonus brevicomis - western pine beetle
• Dendroctonus frontalis - southern pine beetle
• Dendroctonus jeffreyi - Jeffrey pine beetle
• Dendroctonus micans - great spruce bark beetle
• Dendroctonus murrayanae - lodgepole pine beetle
• Dendroctonus ponderosae - mountain pine beetle
• Dendroctonus pseudotsugae - Douglas-fir beetle
• Dendroctonus punctatus - Allegheny spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus rufipennis - spruce beetle
• Dendroctonus simplex - eastern larch beetle
• Dendroctonus terebrans - black turpentine beetle
• Dendroctonus valens - red turpentine beetle