| Apioninae | |
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| Apion | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Brentidae |
| Subfamily: | Apioninae Schoenherr, 1823 |
Apioninae is a subfamily of pear-shaped weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. There are at least 20 genera and 80 described species in Apioninae.12 They feed on living vegetation and sometimes on galls, making them occasional pests or tools of biological control.3
Genera
These 22 genera belong to the subfamily Apioninae:
- Alocentron Schilsky in Kuester, 1901 g b
- Apion Herbst, 1797 i b
- Apionion Kissinger, 1998 g b
- Aspidapion g b
- Betulapion Ehret, 1994 g b
- Chrysapion Kissinger, 1968 b
- Coelocephalapion Wagner, 1914 g b
- Eutrichapion Reitter, 1916 g b
- Exapion Bedel, 1887 i g b
- Fallapion Kissinger, 1968 g b
- Ischnopterapion g b
- Kissingeria Alonso-Zarazaga, 1991 g b
- Loborhynchapion Gyorffy, 1956 g b
- Metapion Schilsky, 1906
- Neapion Alonso-Zarazaga, 1991 g b
- Neotropion b
- Omphalapion Schilsky, 1901 g b
- Perapion Wagner, 1907 i g b
- Podapion Riley, 1883 g b
- Rhopalapion Schilsky, 1906 g b
- Sayapion Kissinger, 1999 g b
- Stenopterapion Bokor, 1923 g b
- Trichapion Wagner, 1912 g b
Data sources: i = ITIS,4 c = Catalogue of Life,5 g = GBIF,6 b = Bugguide.net1
References
References
- "Apioninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- "Apioninae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- Barclay, Maxwell; Bouchard, Patrice (2023). Beetles of the World: A Natural History. Canada: Princeton University Press. pp. 220–221. ISBN 978-0-691-24073-2.
- "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
Further reading
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.
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 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.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. 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.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - 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. PMC 5523881. PMID 28769721.
- Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577.
- Kissinger, David G. (1968). Curculionidae Subfamily Apioninae of North and Central America: With Reviews of the World Genera of Apioninae and World Subgenera of Apion Herbst (Coleoptera).
- Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand. 37.
- Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). 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. Vol. 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. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777.
- Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. Entomological Information Services: 41–820. ISBN 9781889002019.
- Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (2004). Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (eds.). Brentidae of the world (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Monographie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. ISBN 88-86041-35-7. ISSN 1121-7545.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.