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COLEOPTERA, Brentidae. -- <Images> & <Juveniles> Brentidae is a cosmopolitan family of primarily
xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils. The concept of
this family has been recently expanded with the inclusion of three groups
formerly placed in the Curculionidae; the subfamilies Apioninae, Cyladinae,
and Nanophyinae, as well as the Ithycerinae, previously considered a separate
family. They are most diverse in the tropics, but occur throughout the
temperate regions of the world. They are among the families of weevils that
have non-elbowed antennae, and tend to be elongate and flattened, though
there are numerous exceptions. The subfamilial
classification of the family has been reorganized by several different
authors since 1990 and is not yet stable; the most recent, and conservative,
classification (Oberprieler et al., 2007) accepts only 6 subfamilies, with
many familiar subfamilial taxa (e.g., Antliarhininae, Cyladinae,
Cyphagoginae, Myrmacicelinae, and Trachelizinae) now relegated to tribal
groups, primarily within the subfamily Brentinae. References: Please refer to <biology.ref.htm>, [Additional references
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