Biology:Smicronychini

Short description: Tribe of beetles

Smicronychini
Smicronyx sordidus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Curculioninae
Tribe:	Smicronychini Seidlitz, 1891

Smicronychini is a tribe of true weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are at least 7 genera in Smicronychini.

Smicronyx sordidus

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Smicronychini:

• Afrosmicronyx Hustache, 1935 ^g
• Hedychrous Marshall, 1923 ^{c g}
• Promecotarsus Casey, 1892 ^{i c g b}
• Sharpia Tournier, 1873 ^{c g}
• Smicronyx Schönherr, 1843 ^{i c g b}
• Smicrorhynchus Scudder, 1893 ^{c g}
• Topelatus Hustache, 1920 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 84-605-9994-9. 
• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up. 
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (Pensoft Publishers) (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053. 
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 0665070772. https://archive.org/details/checklistofcoleo00crot. 
• Douglas, H.; Bouchard, P.; Anderson, R.S.; de Tonnancour, P. et al. (2013). "New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada". ZooKeys (681): 13–48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.681.12469. PMID 28769721. PMC 5523881. https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3689125. 
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577. 
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand 37. https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/. 
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. 
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777. https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcoleo00leng_0. 
• O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34). 
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21219000 entry