We review the morphology, larval feeding habits, reproductive behavior, and social behavior of Scolytinae and Platypodinae. Their morphology and behavior are adaptations to a lifestyle centered on tunneling in wood. Tunnels are easily defended, and dead wood is a relatively long-lasting resource that can support large populations but that is unpredictable in space and time; these features favor the evolution of parental care and more advanced forms of social behavior. Bark and ambrosia beetles are unique among beetles in the extraordinary variety of feeding biologies and mating systems; in particular, regular bigyny has evolved in many lineages, an otherwise unknown animal mating system. Sex role reversal is rare in insects but has evolved repeatedly in bark and ambrosia beetles. Finally, we summarize for the first time diversity patterns of mating systems and feeding biology for the entire Scolytinae world fauna, ca. 6000 species in 247 genera.

Evolution and diversity of bark and Ambrosia beetles

Forest vulnerability to drought is expected to increase under anthropogenic climate change, and drought-induced mortality and community dynamics following drought have major ecological and societal impacts. Here, we show that tree mortality concomitant with drought has led to short-term (mean 5 y, range 1 to 23 y after mortality) vegetation-type conversion in multiple biomes across the world (131 sites). Self-replacement of the dominant tree species was only prevalent in 21% of the examined cases and forests and woodlands shifted to nonwoody vegetation in 10% of them. The ultimate temporal persistence of such changes remains unknown but, given the key role of biological legacies in long-term ecological succession, this emerging picture of postdrought ecological trajectories highlights the potential for major ecosystem reorganization in the coming decades. Community changes were less pronounced under wetter postmortality conditions. Replacement was also influenced by management intensity, and postdrought shrub dominance was higher when pathogens acted as codrivers of tree mortality. Early change in community composition indicates that forests dominated by mesic species generally shifted toward more xeric communities, with replacing tree and shrub species exhibiting drier bioclimatic optima and distribution ranges. However, shifts toward more mesic communities also occurred and multiple pathways of forest replacement were observed for some species. Drought characteristics, species-specific environmental preferences, plant traits, and ecosystem legacies govern postdrought species turnover and subsequent ecological trajectories, with potential far-reaching implications for forest biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Forest and woodland replacement patterns following drought-related mortality

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Spatio-temporal infestation patterns of Ips typographus (L.) in the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany

Une pullulation massive de scolytes s'est deroulee entre 1993 et 1998 dans les montagnes Tatras, situees entre la Pologne et la Slovaquie. Dans la partie Slovaque de la surface attaquee, la pratique forestiere a consiste a ne pas intervenir jusqu'en 1994, puis en une protection active via l'utilisation d'arbres-pieges, d'insecticides et de coupes sanitaires entre 1995 et 1996, et en diverses techniques de lutte diversifiees selon la zonation des surfaces attaques, combinees a l'utilisation de piegeages a pheromones en 1997 et 1998. En Pologne la pullulation etait localisee en grande majorite dans des reserves strictes ou aucune mesure de protection n'etait autorisee. Malgre l'importance des moyens de lutte mis en oeuvre, la mortalite des arbres n'a pas diminue significativement dans la partie Slovaque pendant les annees 1995-1996. Les techniques utilisees aboutissaient a l'augmentation de l'attractivite des bordures de la foret pour les scolytes, et ceux-ci pouvaient s'y developper en provenance de zones forestieres ou le meme niveau de controle n'etait pas applique. Un climat defavorable au developpement des scolytes a largement contribue a la diminution rapide des mortalites d'arbres observees dans les deux parties de la region etudiee.

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Effects of intensive versus no management strategies during an outbreak of the bark beetle Ips typographus (L.) (Col.: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in the Tatra Mts. in Poland and Slovakia

An argument is made for the retention of the family status of the Scolytidae and Platypodidae as members of the superfamily Curculionoidea. A new subfamily and tribal arrangement is proposed: SCOLYTIDAE comprising 13 subfamilies, Hylesininae, with 12 tribes, Hyorrhynchinae, with one tribe; Scolytinae, with one tribe; Hexacolinae, with one tribe; Cylindrobrotinae, with one tribe; Scolytoplatypodinae, with one tribe; Cactopininae, with one tribe; Carphodicticinae, with one tribe; Micracidinae, with one tribe; Crypturginae, with one tribe; Ipinae, with six tribes; Cryphalinae, with one tribe and Corthylinae, with two tribes and PLATYPODIDAE comprising three subfamilies, Coptonotinae, with three tribes; Tesserocerinae, with two tribes and Platypodinae, with one tribe.

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A Catalog of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera), Supplement 3(2000-2010), with notes on subfamily and tribal reclassifications

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