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

Type of: arthropod family

Part of: Coleoptera, order Coleoptera

Nearest

family Schizophyceae
family Schizosaccharomycetaceae
family Sciadopityaceae
family Sciaenidae
family Sciaridae
family Scincidae
family Sciuridae
family Sclerodermataceae
family Sclerotiniaceae
family Scolopacidae
family Scolytidae
family Scomberesocidae
family Scombresocidae
family Scombridae
family Scorpaenidae
family Scrophulariaceae
family Scutigeridae
family Scyliorhinidae
family Secotiaceae
family Selaginellaceae
family Sepiidae