Scolytus
noun
Scol·y·tus
-lətəs
: the type genus of Scolytidae comprising numerous small bark beetles of which some are destructive to economically important plants and one (S. multistriatus) is a vector of the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, irregular from Greek skolyptein to cut short; akin to Greek kolos docked, hornless (lame)