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Family Attelabidae - Leaf Rolling Weevils

Red One! - Merhynchites bicolor Egg inside a little Temnocerus aeratus (Say) - Temnocerus aeratus Leaf-Rolling Weevil - Homoeolabus analis - male Merhynchites bicolor? - Merhynchites oak leafrolling weevil - Synolabus bipustulatus Haplorhynchites aeneus Rose Curculio (Merhynchites bicolor) mating - Merhynchites bicolor - 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 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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