Piazurini

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Piazurini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Conoderinae
Tribe: Piazurini
Lacordaire, 1865

Piazurini is a tribe of true weevils in the beetle family Curculionidae. There are about 12 genera and more than 400 described species in Piazurini. [1] [2]

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Genera

These 12 genera belong to the tribe Piazurini:

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References

  1. 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.

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