Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Cocklebur Weevil - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus - male - female Weevils mating ID? - Sphenophorus cicatristriatus - male - female Hunting Billbug - Sphenophorus venatus Lesser Billbug - Sphenophorus destructor Sphenophorus - Sphenophorus compressirostris Cocklebur Weevil Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus Sphenophorus inaequalis - Sphenophorus melanocephalus Weevil - Sphenophorus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Dryophthorinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
nowadays usually treated as a family, e.g. in(1)(2)(3); includes Rhynchophorinae Schönherr 1833 (considered a tribe)
Explanation of Names
Dryophthorinae Schönherr 1825
Remarks
"Many of the currently used names will not hold." (Jens Prena, pers. comm.)
Works Cited
1.Franz et al. (2012-) Weevils of North America (WoNA)
2.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
3.New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Anthribidae, Brentidae, Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, and Curculionidae...
Webster R.P., Anderson R.S., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 349-406.