Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 
Clickable Guide
Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Fungus Weevils (Anthribidae) » Anthribinae » Zygaenodini

Tribe Zygaenodini

Representative Images

Eusphyrus Ormiscus sextuberculatus (Schaeffer) - Ormiscus sextuberculatus Fungus Weevil - Eusphyrus walshi Fungus Weevil - Ormiscus Ormiscus irroratus (Schaeffer) - Ormiscus irroratus beetle - Eusphyrus tiny anthribid - Ormiscus Ormiscus? Maybe O. quercus? - Ormiscus

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 Zygaenodini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ormiscini LeConte 1876 [see(1)] --our genera listed under Ormiscini in(2) where it was treated as a mostly neotropical tribe separate from Zygaenodini (the latter included Old World genera only)

Explanation of Names

Zygaenodini Lacordaire 1865

Numbers

3 genera in our area, 30 total(2)

Range

worldwide, most diverse in E/SE Asia & S. America(2)

Works Cited

1.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.
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 18 January, 2013 - 7:07am
Last updated 23 January, 2015 - 12:29pm

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2025 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact