DRYOPHTHORIDAE Schönherr, 1825
(a family of weevils)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Sitophilus rice and grain weevils					Genus	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	DRYOPHTHORIDAE (a family of weevils)
Division	Orthoceri (primitive 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)

DRYOPHTHORIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Duff, A.G.	2016	Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae	Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
	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

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

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)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DRYOPHTHORIDAE (a family of weevils)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DRYOPHTHORIDAE (a family of weevils)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

DRYOPHTHORIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)