Brentidae, sometimes known as the primitive weevils, is a cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagousbeetles also known as straight-snouted weevils. The concept of this family has been 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.
Classification
[edit]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.
The New York weevil has been included in a broadly defined family definition, placed as the only genus in a subfamily Ithycerinae,[1] This position has not been retained by some authors who treat the genus and its extinct relatives treated as the separate family Ithyceridae.[2]
^Shin, S.; Clarke, D. J.; Lemmon, A. R.; Moriarty Lemmon, E.; Aitken, A. L.; Haddad, S.; Farrell, B.; Marvaldi, A. E.; Oberprieler, R. W.; McKenna, D. D. (2018). "Phylogenomic data yield new and robust insights into the phylogeny and evolution of weevils". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35 (4): 823–836. doi:10.1093/molbev/msx324. hdl:11336/57287.
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]
Data related to Brentidae at Wikispecies
