ATTELABIDAE Billberg, 1820
(a family of leaf-roller weevils)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
Apoderus coryli
Hazel Leaf-roller Weevil
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 		Species 39 images 1 ident. refs
Attelabus nitens
Oak Leaf-roller
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 		Species 7 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyATTELABIDAE (a family of leaf-roller weevils)
Division Orthoceri (primitive 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
() Duff, A.G. 2016 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
Gønget, H. 2003 The Nemonychidae, Anthribidae and Attelabidae (Coleoptera) of Northern Europe Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 38, 131pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Morris, M.G. 1990 Orthocerous Weevils Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5 Part 16, 108pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

ATTELABIDAE (a family of leaf-roller weevils) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ATTELABIDAE (a family of leaf-roller weevils)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ATTELABIDAE (a family of leaf-roller weevils)
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