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Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Weevil ID - Sphenophorus cicatristriatus weevils again - Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus - male - female Billbug Snout Beetle - Sphenophorus phoeniciensis Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus - Ironweed Curculio? - Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus Unknown weevil - Dryophthorus americanus Sphenophorus - Sphenophorus venatus Odontocorynus? - Sphenophorus parvulus BeetleWeevil07092019_GH - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus - male - female
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.