Subfamily
Curculioninae
Tachyerges salicis. Photo: (c) Nikolai Vladimirov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The beetle subfamily Curculioninae is part of the weevil family Curculionidae. It contains over 23,500 described species in 2,200 genera, and is therefore the largest weevil subfamily known. Given that the beetle order (Coleoptera) contains about one-quarter of all known organisms, the Curculioninae represent one of the – if not the – most successful radiations of terrestrial Metazoa.
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