CURCULIONIDAE Latreille, 1802
(weevils)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Species 7 images
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
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Subfamily 7 subtaxa 48 images 2 ident. refs
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Subfamily 4 subtaxa 51 images 3 ident. refs
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
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Subfamily 3 subtaxa 31 images 4 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
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Subfamily 4 subtaxa 47 images 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 7 images 1 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 7 images
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Subfamily 28 subtaxa 270 images 14 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 7 images
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Genus 1 subtaxa 9 images
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Subfamily 5 subtaxa 74 images 2 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 2 images
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Subfamily 1 subtaxa 22 images 1 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 9 images
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 2 ident. refs
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 9 images
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Species 5 images
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Species 3 images 1 ident. refs
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Species 10 images
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Subfamily 4 subtaxa 9 images 7 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
Species 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
Subfamily 1 ident. refs
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Genus 2 subtaxa 12 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
Division Gonatoceri (true weevils)
SuperfamilyCURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Buck, F.D. 1948 Pentarthrum huttoni Woll. (Col., Curculionidae) and some imported Cossinae Ent. Mon. Mag.: 152-154.
() Duff, A.G. 2016 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) 1981 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 10 (Bruchidae, Anthribidae, Scolytidae, Platypodidae & Curculionidae) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 10, 295pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Morris, M.G. 2012 True Weevils pt III Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 17d, 136pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
() Morris, M.G. 1991 Weevils Naturalists' Handbooks, 16, 76pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Tempere, G. & Pericart, J. 1989 *** Curculionidae (Supplement) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 74, 534pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

Aquatic Species

Denton, J. 2013 Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera 70pp

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Anon. British Leafminers www.leafmines.co.uk/
Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R. The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects www.ukflymines.co.uk

Leaf-miners

György Csóka 2003 Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners 192pp, Forest Research Institute, Budapest

Stored Product Pests

Mound, L. (ed) 1989 Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)

CURCULIONIDAE (weevils) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1,227 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
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