Curculionidae | 常見農業害蟲資訊網

Withabout4600generaand51000describedspecies,thefamilyCurculionidaeisanorderofmagnitudelargerthananyotherinweevilsandcomprisesin ...

3. the aedeagus featuring a distinct dorsal tectum and ventral pedon, also referred to as “ orthocerous type ” of genitalia as they typically occur in the families with orthocerous (non-geniculate) antennae; in the pedal (“ gonatocerous ”) type the tectum is absent 4. exluding those placed in the separate families Brachyceridae, Dryophthoridae, Erirhinidae, Raymondionymidae and Cryptolaryngidae

The classification of Curculionidae into natural subfamilies and tribes probably remains the largest outstanding problem in the higher classification of Coleoptera even half a century after Crowson (1955) wrote these words. A significant first step in addressing this problem was the identification of those taxa with plesiomorphic, pedotectal 3 (Alonso-Zarazaga 2007) male genitalia by, mainly, Morimoto (1962), Kuschel (1971), Thompson (1992) and Zimmerman ...