CIONINAE Schoenherr, 1825
(figwort and mullein weevils)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Cionus figwort and mullein weevils					Genus	4 subtaxa	51 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subfamily	CIONINAE (figwort and mullein weevils)
Family	CURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
Division	Gonatoceri (true weevils)
Superfamily	CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

CIONINAE is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Curculionidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Morris, M.G.	2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

CIONINAE (figwort and mullein weevils) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CURCULIONIDAE
(weevils)

CURCULIONOIDEA
(weevils and allied beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 47 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CIONINAE (figwort and mullein weevils)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CIONINAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

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