Apioninae

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.^[1][2] They feed on living vegetation and sometimes on galls, making them occasional pests or tools of biological control.^[3]

Betulapion simile

Apioninae
Apion
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Brentidae
Subfamily:	Apioninae Schoenherr, 1823

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.net^[1]

References

1. "Apioninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
2. "Apioninae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
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.
4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
5. "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-05.
6. "GBIF". Retrieved 2018-04-05.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

External links

• Media related to Apioninae at Wikimedia Commons