CURCULIONOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(weevils and allied beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Division (Zoo.) 80 subtaxa 632 images 60 ident. refs
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Division (Zoo.) 30 subtaxa 211 images 34 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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
Balachowsky, A. 1949 *** Coléoptères Scolytides ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 50, 320pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
() Duff, A.G. 2016 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
Duffy, E.A.J. 1953 Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Vol 5, Part 15, 20pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) 1983 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 11 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 11, 300pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
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
Hoffmann, A. 1945 *** Coléoptères: Curculionides (3 vols) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 52, 59 & 62, 1841pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Morris, M.G. Curculionoidea, key to groups
Pfeffer, A. 1995 Zentral- und westpaläarktische Borken- und Kernkäfer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae, Platypodidae) 310pp, Pro Entomologia
Schott, C. Iconographie des Coléopteres Curculionoidea d’Alsace claude.schott.free.fr/iconographie/Iconographies-listes.html

Larvae

van Emden, F.I. 1943 Larvae of British Beetles IV: Various small families EMM 79: 263 Ent. Mon. Mag. 78-9: 209-223.

CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1,622 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
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