Curculionidae ...

• Main Authors: Oberprieler, Rolf G., Marvaldi, Adriana E., Anderson, Robert S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626096; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5626096

Curculionidae With about 4 600 genera and 51 0 0 0 described species, the family Curculionidae is an order of magnitude larger than any other in weevils and comprises in excess of 80% of all weevil species. Its stupendous species richness is a principal factor in the large size of the Phytophaga and in fact of all Coleoptera, thus in Haldane’s Inordinate Fondness for beetles. Curculionidae occur all over the world, from the arctic zone in the north to the subantarctic islands in the south, from beaches to mountain tops, from deserts to rainforests. They feed on virtually all plants, mainly angiosperms but also gymnosperms, pteridophytes, bryophytes and lichens and occasionally they even browse on algae and cyanobacteria. Unlike all other weevil families, curculionids also make extensive use of monocotyledons as hosts, the basal subfamilies Dryophthorinae and Brachycerinae being predominantly associated with them and several taxa of other subfamilies as well. It is therefore likely that monocotyledons ... : Published as part of Oberprieler, Rolf G., Marvaldi, Adriana E. & Anderson, Robert S., 2007, Weevils, weevils, weevils everywhere *, pp. 491-520 in Zootaxa 1668 on pages 503-509, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274039 ...