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Superfamily Curculionoidea

Beetle/giant weevil - Sphenophorus aequalis Merhynchites bicolor Glaphyrometopus ornithodorus Pierce - Glaphyrometopus ornithodorus Unknown Weevil - Rhinoncus pericarpius small weevil - Mecinus pascuorum Wild plum weevil - Coccotorus scutellaris Curculionidae, lateral - Tournotaris bimaculata Hilipinus nearcticus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
see(1)
Numbers
6-8 families in NA (~3000 spp.), 7-9 total, depending on source(2)(3)(4); estimated to include ~220,000 spp. worldwide (N.M. Franz's page)
Identification
the most recent general treatment in(5)
Print References
(6)(7)(8)(6)(9)(10)(11)(12)
Internet References
(13)(14)
Works Cited
1.Phylogenomic data yield new and robust insights into the phylogeny and evolution of weevils
Shin S, Clarke DJ, Lemmon AR, Moriarty Lemmon E, Aitken AL, Haddad S, Farrell BD, Marvaldi AE, Oberprieler RG, McKenna DD. 2017. Mol. biol. evol. 35: 823-836.
2.Franz et al. (2012-) Weevils of North America (WoNA)
3.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.
4.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
5.Handbook of Zoology. Coleoptera Vol. 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga)
Leschen R.A.B., Beutel R.G. (eds). 2014. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. 687 pp.
6.Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies...
O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.
7.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
8.The weevils of Canada and Alaska: Vol. 1. Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, excluding Scolytidae and Curculionidae
Bright D.E. 1993. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 21. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 217 pp.
9.Assessment of species diversity in the Montane Cordillera Ecozone
Scudder G.G.E., Smith I.M. (eds.). 1998. Burlington: Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network.
10.Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of the Yukon
Anderson R.S. 1997. In: Danks H.V., Downes J.A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa: 523–5.
11.A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
12.Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
Gillett C.P.D.T., Crampton-Platt A., Timmermans M.J.T.N., Jordal B.H., Emerson B.C., Vogler A.P. 2014. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31: 2223-2237.
13.Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. (2003-) WTaxa: Electronic catalogue of weevil names (Curculionoidea)
14.Schott C. Les coléoptères Curculionoidea d'Alsace