Scolytus schevyrewi

{{Short description|Species of beetle}}

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| image = Scolytus schevyrewi UGA 1326205.png

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| genus = Scolytus

| species = schevyrewi

| authority = (Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1902){{cite journal|last1=Semenov|last2=Petrovich|first2=A|year=1902|title=New bark beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) for the fauna of Russian and central Asia|journal=Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie|volume=2|pages=265–266|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43685#page/295/mode/1up}}

| synonyms =

• Scolytus schevyrevi Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1902
• Scolytus seulensis Murayama, 1930
• Scolytus sinensis Eggers, 1910
• Scolytus laevifrons Michalski, 1964
• Eccoptogaster emarginatus Wichmann 1915
• Eccoptogaster frankei Wichmann, 1915
• Eccoptogaster transcaspicus Eggers, 1922

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Scolytus schevyrewi, the banded elm bark beetle, is a 3–4 mm long elm bark beetle species in the genus Scolytus native from Asia and accidentally introduced to North America.{{cite book|last=Старк|first=BH|year=1952|title=фауна СССР. Жесткокрылые. Tom 31. Короеды|pages=100–101|publisher=Издательство академии наук СССР (Stark, V.N. (1952) Fauna of the USSR. Coleoptera. Vol. 31. Bark-beetles. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR)|url=https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/pdf/fauna_ussr_xxxi_(scolytidae).pdf}} It is a vector of the Dutch elm disease, caused by the Ascomycota Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. In North America, it is displacing both the native elm bark beetle and the previously introduced smaller European elm bark beetle, which are becoming less common in their range with the expansion of S. schevyrewi.{{cite book|last=Veilleux|first=Jonathan|year=2012|title=Establishment of Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in the prairies: life cycle, hosts and impact|url=http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/8859}}