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Subfamily Lixinae

Weevil - Larinus carlinae Curculionidae - Lixus concavus - male - female Beetles - Lixus macer - male - female Apleurus jacobinus Unknown Entiminae - Stephanocleonus confusus Weevil - Lixus IMG_07262021_GH_5235_1 - Lixus macer Beetle - Larinus - 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 Lixinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cleoninae
Explanation of Names
Lixinae Schönherr 1823
Numbers
3 tribes (one non-native to NA), with ~110 spp. (of which ~70 Lixus spp.) in 11 genera in our area(1), ~1,500 spp. worldwide(2)(3)
Identification
key to New World genera in(2)
Range
worldwide, much more diverse in drier regions of the Old World
Habitat
from mesic to very arid; Lixini are usually associated with more mesic habitats, whereas most traditional Cleonini are found in arid habitats(2)
Food
hosts include a wide range of herbs and or shrubs, most notably Chenopodiaceae, Compositae, Leguminosae, Rosaceae, Cruciferae and Polygonaceae; larvae of most spp. mine stems or roots, but some (e.g., Rhinocyllus, Larinus, Microlarinus) feed in flower heads or on seeds(2)
Remarks
Members of several genera have been introduced to control weeds, esp. in rangeland of w. NA(1)
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.Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of New World weevils traditionally of the tribe Cleonini (Col.: Curculionidae:Cleoninae)
R.S. Anderson (1988). 1987. Quaestiones Entomologicae 23: 431-709.
3.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.