Apioninae

Apioninae
	Apion
Scientific classification
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. They feed on living vegetation and sometimes on galls, making them occasional pests or tools of biological control.

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, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

1 2 "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.

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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.
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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).
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White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

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[bugref-1] 1 2 "Apioninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

[eol-2] "Apioninae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

[:0-3] 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-4] "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

[catlife-5] "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

[gbif-6] "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Apioninae

Apion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea
Family:	Brentidae
Subfamily:	Apioninae Schoenherr, 1823

Apioninae

Genera

References

Further reading

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