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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Representative Images

Which weevil? - Sphenophorus parvulus Sphenophorus venatus Weevil - Sphenophorus australis Cocklebur Weevil - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus Cocklebur Weevil - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus - Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus Weevil on the beach - Sphenophorus simplex Sphenophorus - Sphenophorus incongruus Rocky Mountain billbug in Oregon - Sphenophorus cicatristriatus

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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 8 September, 2005 - 7:34am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 4 April, 2015 - 1:33pm

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