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Curculionoidea  Latreille, 1802
Taxonomic Serial No.: 114654

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderCucujiformia Lameere, 1938  
                                        SuperfamilyCurculionoidea Latreille, 1802  
    Direct Children:  
                                           FamilyAnthribidae Billberg, 1820 – fungus weevils 
                                           FamilyAttelabidae Billberg, 1820  
                                           FamilyBelidae Schönherr, 1826  
                                           FamilyBrentidae Billberg, 1820 – straight-snouted weevils 
                                           FamilyCaridae Thompson, 1992  
                                           FamilyCurculionidae Latreille, 1802 – snout beetles, weevils, charançons 
                                           FamilyNemonychidae Bedel, 1882  
       

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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, database (version May 2025)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2024). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal   
  Publication Date: 1999   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae)   
  Page(s): 315   
  Publisher: Entomopraxis   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 84-605-9994-9   
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  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Anderson, Robert S.   
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama: Checklist with keys, new synonymy and descriptions of new species of Cactophagus, Mesocordylus, Metamasius and Rhodobaenus (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 80   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: 1175-5334 (online edition: available at www.mapress.com/zootaxa/)   
  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
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  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1996   
  Article/Chapter Title: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera   
  Page(s): 14-820   
  Publisher: Entomological Information Services   
  Publication Place: Rockville, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-889002-01-1   
  Notes: Series ISBN is 1-889002-00-3   
  Reference for: Curculionoidea   
       

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