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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Primitive Weevils (Brentidae)

Family Brentidae - Primitive Weevils

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Apioninae? - Neapion herculanum Nanodactylus obesulus Blatchley - Nanodactylus obesulus New York Weevil - Ithycerus noveboracensis Arrhenodes minutus - Oak Timberworm - Arrenodes minutus Trichapion sp.? - Trichapion Apioninae, lateral - Trichapion Weevil found on Hoita macrostachya - Trichapion Lake Crabtree Coleoptera weevil 3 on Betula nigra 2020 3
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 Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Other Common Names
Straight-snouted Weevils
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Apionidae, Cyladidae, Eurhynchidae, Nanophyidae, Ithyceridae
classification proposed in(1) and adopted in(2) will be implemented in the Guide soon
Explanation of Names
Brentidae Billberg 1820
Numbers
ca. 150 spp. in 32 genera in our area(3), ~4000 spp. in ~400 genera total(4)
Overview of our faunaFamily Brentidae
Subfamily Brentinae
Tribe Brentini Brentus
Tribe Arrhenodini Arrhenodes · Heterobrenthus
Subfamily Cyphagoginae Stereodermus
Subfamily Trachelizinae Paratrachelizus
Subfamily Cyladinae Cylas
Subfamily Apioninae
Tribe Apionini Sayapion
Tribe Aplemonini Perapion · Podapion
Tribe Aspidapiini Alocentron · Aspidapion
Tribe Ceratapiini Omphalapion
Tribe Exapiini Exapion
Tribe Ixapiini Neotropion · Neapion
Tribe Malvapiini Rhopalapion
Tribe Oxystomatini Subtribe Oxystomatina Eutrichapion · Loborhynchapion • Subtribe Trichapiina Betulapion · Kissingeria · Trichapion • Subtribe Synapiina Ischnopterapion · Stenopterapion
Tribe Piezotrachelini Chrysapion · Fallapion
Incertae sedis Apionion · Coelocephalapion
Subfamily Nanophyinae Microon · Nanodactylus · Nanophyes · Pseudotychius · Zeugonyx
Subfamily Ithycerinae Ithycerus
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Food
Smaller members of this family feed on leaves and seeds of herbaceous plants; larger members excavate tunnels in living and dying trees.(5)
Works Cited
1.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.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.
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.Hidden Company that Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. Nardi. 2023. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 23 May, 2005 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Stephen_WV, Mike Quinn, v belov, roar, Marci Hess
Last updated 24 September, 2023 - 10:53am

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