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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Straight-snouted Weevils (Brentidae)

Family Brentidae - Straight-snouted Weevils

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Oak Timberworm - Arrhenodes minutus - male Curculionidae? - Betulapion simile Little weevils on oak and ash - Apion Apion sp.? Weevil - Rhopalapion longirostre - male - female Micro Weevil 4=v= Coelocephalapion buchanani (Kissinger) - Coelocephalapion buchanani Coelocephalapion aculeatum (Fall) - Coelocephalapion aculeatum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Brentidae (Straight-snouted Weevils)
Other Common Names
Dillon & Dillon call this group Primitive Weevils.(1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Brenthidae; incl. Apionidae, Cyladidae, Eurhynchidae
Remarks
Family BRENTIDAE
Subfamily BRENTINAE
Tribe Brentini. Brentus
Tribe Arrhenodini. Arrenodes, Heterobrenthus
Subfamily CYPHAGOGINAE
Tribe Stereodermini. Stereodermus
Subfamily TRACHELIZINAE
Tribe Trachelizini. Paratrachelizus
Subfamily CYLADINAE (No tribal assignments). Cylas
Subfamily APIONINAE
Tribe Apionini. Apion, Aspidapion
Tribe Aplemonini. Perapion, Podapion
Tribe Aspidapiini. Alocentron
Tribe Ceratapiini. Omphalapion
Tribe Exapiini. Exapion
Tribe Ixapiini. Neapion, Neotropion
Tribe Malvapiini. Rhopalapion
Tribe Oxystomatini. Eutrichapion, Mesotrichapion, Betulapion, Kissingeria, Trichapion, Ischnopterapion
Tribe Piezotrachelini. Chrysapion, Fallapion
Incertae sedis genera. Apionion, Coelocephalapion, Sayapion
Subfamily NANOPHYINAE
Tribe Nanophyini. Microon, Nanodactylus, Nanophyes, Pseudotychius, Zeugonyx
Print References
American Beetles, Vol. 2, Chapter 129 (2)
Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America, Vol. 2, Page 738 (1)
Works Cited
1.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 23 May, 2005 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by Stephen Cresswell, v belov
Last updated 12 November, 2009 - 8:09am

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