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Tribe Hylobiini - Pine Weevils

Pitch-Bark Weevil - Pachylobius picivorus

Another Entiminae? - Pachylobius picivorus

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 Molytinae

Tribe Hylobiini (Pine Weevils)

Explanation of Names

Hylobiini Kirby 1837

Numbers

6 genera in our area(1) (all in subtr. Hylobiina), ~50 genera in 2 subtribes total(2)

Range

worldwide, but 32 genera are in the New World only (vast majority neotropical), 12 occur in the Oriental Region (incl. 7 endemic), 5-6 in each Afrotropical (3 endemic), Australasian (3 endemic), and Palaearctic (1 endemic) regions; only the subtr. Hylobiina is represented in the Old World(2)

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.	A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 31 January, 2010 - 1:40pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 10 September, 2015 - 10:07am

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