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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) » Apioninae

Subfamily Apioninae

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Apion species weevil? - Apion cyanitinctum Coleoptera Coleoptera - Trichapion Dark-toed Weevil - Coelocephalapion buchanani small black weevil-Apioninae - Trichapion rostrum weevil - Perapion curtirostre Tiny Blue Weevil weevil - Betulapion simile
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)
Subfamily Apioninae
Identification
Quoting Boris Büche on photo 95724,

"Head with rostrum prostrate, eyes seperated by neck from anteriour margin of pronotum, pronotum rather slender and subconical." Elytra usually widest behind middle. "Femora seperated from coxae by the elongated trochanters, appearing as an extra segment of the legs (only being a laterobasal appendage of the femur in all other weevils, except for Cylas and the Nanophyes group)."
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 14 June, 2005 - 10:36am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 12 June, 2009 - 8:04am

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