Online Keys
Interactive Key to the Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of the Southeastern U.S., Baker, James R., James LaBonte, Thomas Atkinson & Stephen Bambara. 2009. An Identification Tool For Bark Beetles of the Southeastern United States. Lucid® v. 3.4.1, December, 2009, Latest update [Jan, 2010] North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 27695.
Xyleborini ambrosia Beetles: An identification tool to the World Genera. Jiri Hulcr & Sarah Smith
Bark Beetle Genera of the United States. Mercado, J.E. 2010. Colorado State University, USDA-APHIS-PPQ Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, and USDA-FS Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Interactive key to the Xyleborine ambrosia beetles of Southeast Asia. Smith, S.M.; Beaver, R.A.; Cognato, A.I.; Hulcr, J. 2019
Key to the world species of Ips (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Douglas, H.B.; Cognato, A.I.; Grebennikov, V.; Savard, K. 2019
Interactive key to the genera of Scolytinae of the Americas. T.H. Atkinson. October, 2023.
This is a preliminary version of a key to the scolytione genera of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. Additional changes and revisions will be forthcoming.
Digital versions of monographs
These are bookmarked. Some of these can be browsed online without the need to download large files.
Armendáriz, F., Zúñiga, G.. 2017. Download Illustrated Key to Species of Genus Dendroctonus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Occurring in Mexico and Central America. Journal of Insect Science. 17(2): 1-15
Armendáriz, F., Zúñiga, G., García, L.J., Mendoza, O. y García, P.G. 2018. Download Guía ilustrada para identificar las especies del género Dendroctonus presentes en México y Centroamérica. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 116 páginas
Blandford, W.F.H. 1895-1905. Download Online Version Fam. Scolytidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 4:81-29.
Bright, D.E., 1981. Download A taxonomic monograph of the genus Pityophthorus Eichhoff in North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 12: 1-491.
Bright, D.E., 2019. Download A Taxonomic Monograph of the Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Scolytidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropds 118: 1-378.
Michalsky, J, 1973. Download Revision of the Palearctic species of the genus Scolytus Geoffroy (Coleoptera, Scolytidae). Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warsaw 1-214, plates.
Schedl, K.E., 1972. Download Online Version Monographie der Familie Platypodidae Coleoptera. W. Junk., The Hague 1-322.
Wood, S. L. 1982. Download Online Version The bark and ambrosia beetles of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), a taxonomic monograph. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 6: 1-1356.
Wood, S. L. 1986. Download A reclassification of the genera of Scolytidae (Coleoptera). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 10: 1-286.
Wood, S. L. 2007. Download Bark and ambrosia beetles of South America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Text only. Monte L. Bean Science Museum. Provo, Utah 1-900.
Wood, S. L. 2007. Download Bark and ambrosia beetles of South America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Plates only. Monte L. Bean Science Museum. Provo, Utah 1-900.
Wood, S. L. and Bright, D. E. 1987. Download A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 1. Bibliography. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 11: 1-685.
Wood, S. L. and Bright, D. E. 1992. Download Online Version A catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Part 2. Taxonomic Index Volumes A and B. Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 13: 1-1553.
Images
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Pests and Disease Image Library (Australia)
Photographs of species from Alsace by C. Schott
.Regional Checklists
Species from Alsace by C. Schott
Species from Russia by Mikhail Mandelshtam
Other sites
Anthony Cognato and students, Michigan State University.
Chase Mayers page, Cornell University. Literature and information on ambrosial symbioses
BugGuide bark and ambrosia beetles