Phylogeography and sister group of Lupangus, a new genus for three new flightless allopatric forest litter weevils endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania …

VV Grebennikov - Fragmenta entomologica, 2017 - rosa.uniroma1.it
This paper reports discovery of a new genus Lupangus gen. n. with three new flightless
weevils endemic to the forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania: L. asterius sp …

Transgressing Wallace's Line brings hyperdiverse weevils down to earth

H Letsch, M Balke, EFA Toussaint… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wallace's Line, located in the heart of the Indo‐Australian archipelago, has historically been
hypothesized to strongly inhibit dispersal. Taxa crossing this barrier are confronted with …

Historical biogeography of the hyperdiverse hidden snout weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae)

H Letsch, M Balke, EFA Toussaint… - Systematic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The first dated phylogeny of the weevil subfamily Cryptorhynchinae is presented within a
framework of Curculionoidea. The inferred pattern and timing of weevil family relationships …

Transoceanic origin of microendemic and flightless New Caledonian weevils

EFA Toussaint, R Tänzler… - Royal Society Open …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The origin of the astonishing New Caledonian biota continues to fuel a heated debate
among advocates of a Gondwanan relict scenario and defenders of late oceanic dispersal …

Mitochondrial genomes of twelve species of hyperdiverse Trigonopterus weevils

RP Narakusumo, A Riedel, J Pons - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Mitochondrial genomes of twelve species of Trigonopterus weevils are presented, ten of
them complete. We describe their gene order and molecular features and test their potential …

Long-term population persistence of flightless weevils (Eurhoptus pyriformis) across old- and second-growth forests patches in southern Appalachia

MS Caterino, SS Langton-Myers - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Southern Appalachian forests are dominated by second-growth
vegetation following decades of intensive forestry and agricultural use, although some old …

Morphological and molecular inference of immature stages of Larinus hedenborgi (Col: Curculionidae), a trehala-constructing weevil

J Skuhrovec, R Gosik, N Maleki-Ravasan… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2021 - Springer
Trehala manna is the edible and trehalose-rich cocoons of a few Larinus species
(Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae: Lixini), and manufactured by the feeding activity of …

Mitochondrial genomes of Sternochetus species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and the phylogenetic implications

LJ Zhang, YJ Li, XY Ge, XY Li, YX Yang… - Archives of Insect …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The three weevil species, Sternochetus gravis, S. mangiferae, and S. olivieri, have all been
reported to be serious pests of mango fruits. Morphology, biology, and various management …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the genera of Conoderinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean

SS Anzaldo - ZooKeys, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The thirty-nine extant genera of Conoderinae known to occur in North America, Central
America, and the Caribbean are reviewed based on external morphology. An identification …

[HTML][HTML] Checklist of the micro-and anophthalmic soil-dwelling weevils of the world (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

JJ Morrone, P Hlaváč - Zootaxa, 2017 - mapress.com
A checklist of the soil-dwelling microphthalmic and anophthalmic weevils of the world is
presented. A total of 485 species in 85 genera are recognised, distributed over eight …