Brentidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Brentidae
Subfamiliae [after Oberprieler et al. (2007)]: Apioninae - Brentinae - Eurhynchinae - Ithycerinae - Microcerinae - Nanophyinae

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Name

Brentidae Billberg, 1820
References

Beaver, R.A., Mantilleri, A.; Liu, L.-Y. 2009: Checklist and illustrated key to species of Brentidae from Fiji (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods XII. Bishop Museum occasional papers, 102: 3–26. PDF
Kuschel, G. 2003: Nemonychidae, Belidae, Brentidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Fauna of New Zealand, 45. Online. ISBN 0-478-09348-9 Reference page
Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 197: 99–250. ISBN 9782856536056 ISSN: 1243-4442
Legalov, A.A. 2006: Phylogenetic reconstruction of weevils superfamily Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) using the SYNAP method. Biology Bulletin, 33(2): 127–134. DOI: 10.1134/S1062359006020051
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2011 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. p. 142
ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2
Oberprieler, R. 2000: The larvae of the weevil tribe Eurhynchini and the phylogeny of the Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Invertebrate taxonomy, 14: 755–770.
Oberprieler, R.G.; Marvaldi, A.E.; Anderson, R.S. 2007: Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere. Pp. 491-520 in: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (Eds) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1–766. [1]

Links

Australian Faunal Directory (stub)
Apionidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Brentidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Eurhynchidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Ithyceridae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Nanophyidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
Atlas of family Brentidae of Russia

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Langkäfer
English: Straight snout weevils
日本語: ミツギリゾウムシ科
русский: Долготелы
中文: 三錐象鼻蟲科

Brentidae is a cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils. The concept of this family has been recently expanded with the inclusion of three groups formerly placed in the Curculionidae; the subfamilies Apioninae, Cyladinae, and Nanophyinae, as well as the Ithycerinae, previously considered a separate family. They are most diverse in the tropics, but occur throughout the temperate regions of the world. They are among the families of weevils that have non-elbowed antennae, and tend to be elongate and flattened, though there are numerous exceptions.
Holotrichapion pisi is a European member of the subfamily Apioninae

The subfamilial classification of the family has been reorganized by several different authors within the last 20 years, and is not yet stable; the most recent, and conservative, classification (Oberprieler et al., 2007) accepts only 6 subfamilies, with many familiar subfamilial taxa (e.g., Antliarhininae, Cyladinae, Cyphagoginae, Myrmacicelinae and Trachelizinae) now relegated to the corresponding tribal groups, Antliarhinini, Cyladini, Cyphagogini, Myrmacicelini and Trachelizini, primarily within the subfamily Brentinae.
See also

Acratini

References

Oberprieler, R. G.; Marvaldi, A. E.; Anderson, R. S. 2007: Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere. pp. 491–520 in: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W. A. (Eds) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1–766. [1]