Dorytomus Barbirostris
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''Dorytomus'' is a genus of weevils belonging the family
Curculionidae The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils. They are one of the largest animal families, with 6,800 genera and 83,000 species described worldwide. They are the sister group to the family Brentidae. T ...
and subfamily Curculioninae. It was first described by the German
entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
, Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1817.


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List of Dorytomus species This is a list of 177 species in ''Dorytomus'', a genus of true weevils in the family Curculionidae. ''Dorytomus'' species * '' Dorytomus aericomus'' Broun, 1886 * ''Dorytomus affinis'' Billberg, 1820 * '' Dorytomus alaskanus'' Casey, 1892 * '' ...


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* * Curculionidae Beetles described in 1817 Beetles of Europe Taxa named by Ernst Friedrich Germar {{Curculionidae-stub