Belidae
- Dataset
- Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere *
- Rank
- FAMILY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Belidae
description
The unification of Belinae and Oxycoryninae into a single family is not universally adopted (e. g., Crowson 1955, Thompson 1992, Zimmerman 1994 a, Zherikhin & Gratshev 1995), although the close relationship of these two groups has long been recognised and is well supported in phylogenetic analyses (Kuschel 1995, Marvaldi & Morrone 2000, Marvaldi et al. 2002). The Aglycyderini, too, are sometimes treated as a separate subfamily (e. g., May 1993, Kuschel 1995, 2003) or even family (e. g., Thompson 1992, Zimmerman 1994 a), but recent phylogenetic analyses (Marvaldi 2005 a, Marvaldi et al. 2006) place them firmly inside Oxycoryninae. With phylogenetic analyses recently conducted on all the genera of both Belinae (Kuschel & Leschen 2003) and Oxycoryninae (Marvaldi et al. 2006), the Belidae are the only weevil family for which comprehensive generic phylogenies are available.
Name
- Homonyms
- Belidae