Definition of Family Ipidae

1. Noun. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ipidae

family Hypericaceae
family Hyperodontidae
family Hypocreaceae
family Hypodermatidae
family Hypoxidaceae
family Hystricidae
family Ibidiidae
family Ichneumonidae
family Ichthyosauridae
family Icteridae
family Iguania
family Iguanidae
family Iguanodontidae
family Indicatoridae
family Indriidae
family Ipidae (current term)
family Irenidae
family Iridaceae
family Isoetaceae
family Istiophoridae
family Isuridae
family Ixodidae
family Juglandaceae
family Juncaceae
family Juncaginaceae
family Jungermanniaceae
family Kalotermitidae
family Kasuwonidae
family Kinosternidae

Literary usage of Family Ipidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"family Ipidae (formerly Scolytidae) (Bark beetles or Engraver beetles). The members of this family are borers and nearly all attack the inner bark or wood ..."

2. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"Swaine, JM—New sps. of the family Ipidae [7 new], 4, 1916, 181-92. Wickham, HF—New fossil C. from the Florissant beds [many new], 350, vii, No. 3, 20 pp. ..."

3. New Species of Hemiptera Chiefly from California by Edward Payson Van Duzee (1918)
"FC Fall of Pasadena worked up the snout-beetles then in our possession; Mr. Ralph Hopping of Berkeley has revised the family Ipidae comprising the bark ..."

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