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Family Brachyceridae

weevil night - weevil #5 - smaller still - Tanysphyrus lemnae Duckweed Weevil - Tanysphyrus lemnae Grypus equiseti weevil - Onychylis nigrirostris Onychylis nigrirostris? - Onychylis nigrirostris Marsh Weevil - Notiodes Tychius? - Notiodes aeratus Brachybamus electus? - Brachybamus electus
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 Brachyceridae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
groups included here used to be treated in Curculionidae(1), and still considered a curculionid subfamily in (2), with Erirhinini & Raymondionymini as tribes
Explanation of Names
Brachyceridae Billberg 1820
Numbers
5 subfamilies, of which 2 represented in NA(3)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Cooperative catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Curculionoidea, 2nd ed.
Alonso-Zarazaga MA, Barrios H, Borovec R, Bouchard P, Caldara R, Colonnelli E, Gültekin L, Hlaváč P, Korotyaev B, Lyal CHC,.. 2023. Monografías electrónicas S.E.A.
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.