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Family Belidae - Cycad Weevils

Belidae Rhopalotria slossoni - Rhopalotria slossoni - male

Rhopalotria mollis - Rhopalotria furfuracea

Rhopalotria mollis - Rhopalotria furfuracea - female

Florida little weevil - Rhopalotria slossoni - female

Rhopalotria sp. adult weevil - Rhopalotria slossoni

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 Belidae (Cycad Weevils)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Oxycorynidae

Explanation of Names

Belidae Schönherr 1826

Numbers

2 spp. in a single genus (in the Oxycoryninae) in our area(1), ~380 spp. in ~40 genera in 8 tribes of 2 subfamilies total(2)(3)(4)

Range

with very few exceptions, so. hemisphere, esp. Australasia & so. S. America(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.	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.	A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.

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.

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 18 January, 2008 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 20 January, 2015 - 6:39am

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