Othippiini is a tribe of true weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. Of the eight genera in Othippiini, only Egiona and Othippia are not monotypic. Acoptus suturalis is the only species of the tribe found in the New World.[1][2]

Othippiini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Conoderinae
Tribe: Othippiini
Morimoto, 1962

Genera edit

These eight genera belong to the tribe Othippiini:[3][1][4]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Anzaldo, S. S. (2017). "Review of the genera of Conoderinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean". ZooKeys (683): 51–138. doi:10.3897/zookeys.683.12080. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5523356. PMID 28769729.
  2. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  3. ^ 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 978-84-605-9994-4.
  4. ^ Kojima, Hiroaki; Lyal, Christopher H. C. (2002). "New Oriental and Australian Conoderinae, with Taxonomic Notes on the Tribe Othippiini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)". Esakia. 42. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University. hdl:2324/2666.

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