maple-borer

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Besides the species mentioned are the following: A cerambycid beetle, Glycobius speciosus.
• noun Any one of several homtail borers of the family Uroceridæ, as Xiphydria albicornis and Oryssus sayi.
• noun The larva of a buprestid beetle, Dicerca divaricata.
• noun Any one of several scolytid beetles, as Xyloterus politus and Corthylus punctatissimus.
• noun A calandrid beetle, Stenoscelis brevis.
• noun A ptinid beetle, Xestobium affine.
• noun The larva of the leopard-moth, Zeuzera pyrina.
• noun One of the different insects which bore the wood of maples. Such are Ægeria (or Sesia) acerni in its larval state, Tremex columba, and Plagionotus speciosus.