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Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Sphenophorus? - Sphenophorus parvulus Sphenophorus australis australis? - Sphenophorus australis Sphenophorus striatipennis Chittenden - Sphenophorus striatipennis Rhodobaenus quinquepunctatus billbugs - Sphenophorus costipennis - male - female Rhodobaenus pustulosus Cossoninae - Dryophthorus americanus Curculionidae; Sitophilus? - Sitophilus
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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