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Response: This is an adult male ladder-backed woodpecker, Picoides scalaris, a species that specialises in arid and semi-arid habitats: wooded canyons, cottonwood groves, pine and pine oak woodlands, desert scrub, and desert grasslands dominated by mesquite.

Mystery bird: Ladder-backed woodpecker, Picoides scalaris | @GrrlScientist 2011

I seem to recall that one sees this phenomenon mostly, perhaps entirely, in the more smooth, thin-shelled and typically larger species such as T. caribaeensis and T. pulchella, rather than in the more heavily ribbed types: T. scalaris or T. bahamensis and such.

Who preys on Truncatella AYDIN 2008

Clark's spiny (Sceloporus clarki), Yarrow's spiny (S. jarrovi), bunchgrass (S. scalaris), and striped plateau (S. virgatus) are just a few of the lizards in this ecoregion.

Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests 2007

Alcidodes buho, damages the plant; and the larvae of Azygophteps scalaris tunnels through the main stem.

Chapter 7 1983

Miller (1955b: 317) took a hybrid woodpecker representing a cross between _Dendrocopos villosus_ and _Dendrocopos scalaris_ in the Sierra del Carmen, where, although Ladder-backed Woodpeckers were common, he found no Hairy Woodpeckers.

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

The _common biting lice_ (Fig. 63) that are found on domestic animals are the _T. pilosus_ and _T. pubescens_ of solipeds, _T. scalaris_ of the ox,

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

* _Dendrocopos scalaris cactophilus_ (Oberholser).

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

** _Dendrocopos scalaris symplectus_ (Oberholser).

Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

The Shagreen Saperda (_S. carcharias_) lives in the black poplar; the Scalary Saperda (_S. scalaris_) lives in the cherry-tree.

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

My trees suffered greatly from the attacks of a large and fine longicorn beetle (Taeniotes scalaris, Fab.) which laid its eggs in the green bark, and produced white grubs that mined into the stem.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855