Tribe Platystomini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Fungus Weevil - Phoenicobiella chamaeropis

Toxonotus cornutus (Say) - Toxonotus cornutus

long-horn beetle? - Phoenicobiella chamaeropis

Toxonotus cornutus Beetle - Toxonotus cornutus

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 Anthribidae (Fungus Weevils)

Subfamily Anthribinae

Tribe Platystomini

Explanation of Names

Platystomini Pierce 1916

Numbers

2 genera in our area, 27 total(1)

Range

worldwide (mostly tropical) but with only 3 genera in the New World (none shared with the Old World)(1)

Works Cited

1.	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 18 January, 2013 - 7:06am
Last updated 23 January, 2015 - 7:42am

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