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Notes on the habits and distribution of some Ghanaian bark beetles and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. G. Browne
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Brief notes are given on the distribution and habits of 42 species of Scolytidae and 34 of Platypodidae that occur as common forest insects in Ghana. A considerable number of these can be considered as beneficial insects because they do little damage but assist in the rapid break-down of dead trees and felling slash. Others are injurious mainly as timber borers, shoot borers or, generally to a lesser extent, as bark beetles and seed insects. Trachyostus ghanaensis Schedl and Doliopygus dubius (Samps.) are of outstanding importance in their constant or frequent habit of attacking the wood of living trees of commercial value; Platypus hintzi Schanf., Doliopygus conradti (Strohm.) and D. brevis (Strohm.) are probably the most important ambrosia beetle borers of newly felled timber; and Xyleborus semiopacus Eichh. has been known to destroy whole plantations of young forest trees.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , August 1963 , pp. 229 - 266
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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