Ipidae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Ipidae - large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees family Ipidae, family Scolytidae, Scolytidae arthropod family - any of the arthropods Coleoptera, order Coleoptera - beetles genus Scolytus, Scolytus - type genus of the Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus - genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers bark beetle - small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils