Biology:Phytobiini

Short description: Tribe of beetles

Phytobiini
Rhinoncomimus latipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Ceutorhynchinae
Tribe:	Phytobiini Gistel, 1848

Rhinoncomimus latipes

Phytobiini is a tribe of minute seed weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are about 7 genera and 18 described species in Phytobiini.

Genera

These nine genera belong to the tribe Phytobiini:

• Eubrychius
• Euhrychiopsis Dietz, 1896 ^{i g b}
• Marmaropus
• Neophytobius Wagner, 1936 ^{i c g b}
• Parenthis Dietz, 1896 ^{i g b}
• Pelenomus C.G.Thomson, 1859 ^{c g b}
• Phytobius Schönherr, 1833 ^{i c g b}
• Rhinoncomimus Wagner, 1940 ^{c g b}
• Rhinoncus Schönherr, 1825 ^{i c g b}

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

References

• Gistel, J. 1848: Faunula monacensis cantharologica. (Fortsetzung). Isis von Oken, 1848(7): second to fourth unnumbered pages in the Section Umschlag (front covers).
• Colonnelli, E. 1980: Notes on Phytobiini, with a key to the New World genera (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae). Coleopterists bulletin, 34(3): 281–284.

External links

• bugguide.net

Wikidata ☰ Q18388426 entry