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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Leaf Rolling Weevils (Attelabidae)

Family Attelabidae - Leaf Rolling Weevils

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited

Head-clipping Weevil - Haplorhynchites aeneus

Himatolabus pubescens? - Himatolabus pubescens

Attelabus nigripes - Homoeolabus analis - male - female

Deporaus glastinus? - Deporaus glastinus

leaf-rolling weevil - Synolabus nigripes

Eugnamptus nigriventris? - Eugnamptus nigriventris

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 Attelabidae (Leaf Rolling Weevils)

Other Common Names

Tooth-nosed Snout Beetles

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhynchitidae

Explanation of Names

Attelabidae Billberg 1820

Numbers

51 spp. in 11 genera of 3 subfamilies north of Mexico; >360 spp. in the New World; ~2500 spp. in ~150 genera worldwide(1)(2)

Overview of our fauna:

Family ATTELABIDAE

Taxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)

Subfamily Attelabinae Himatolabus, Homoeolabus, Synolabus, *Xestolabus

Subfamily Rhynchitinae

Tribe Rhynchitini Eugnamptus, Haplorhynchites, Involvulus, Merhynchites, Temnocerus, Rhynchites

Tribe Auletini Auletobius

Tribe Deporaini Deporaus

Subfamily Pterocolinae Pterocolus

Range

worldwide except most Pacific islands(1)

Food

Attelabinae: larvae develop in rolled leaves; Rhynchitinae: larvae mine live or dead leaves, or develop in fruit, cut flower heads, cut terminal shoots, terminal buds, cut leaf primordia; Pterocolinae, the 'Thief Weevils', take over niduses of their attelabine hosts(3)

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.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

3.	Leaf-rolling weevils (Coleoptera: Attelabidae), their host plants, and associated Rhynchitid weevils in North America... Vogt G.B. 1992. In: Quintero D., Aiello A. (eds). Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected studies. Oxford University Press: 392-420.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 27 July, 2004 - 7:51am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 20 January, 2015 - 8:30am

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