Platypodinae is a weevil subfamily in 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.
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. They are important early decomposers of dead woody plant material in wet tropics; all but two species are
ambrosia beetle
Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae ( Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. The beetles excavate tunnels in dead, stressed, and healthy trees in wh ...
s that cultivate fungi in tunnels excavated in dead wood as the sole food for their larvae. They are sometimes known as pinhole borers.
Genera
Tribus:
Mecopelmini
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Mecopelmus''
Tribus:
Platypodini
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Austroplatypus
''Austroplatypus'' is a genus of weevils native to Australia that includes '' Austroplatypus incompertus'', the first beetle to be recognized as a eusocial
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ ''eu'' "good" and social), the highest level of organiz ...
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Baiocis –
Carchesiopygus –
Costaroplatus –
Crossotarsus –
Cylindropalpus –
Dendroplatypus –
Dinoplatypus –
Doliopygus –
Epiplatypus –
Euplatypus
''Euplatypus'' is a genus of pinhole borers in the subfamily Platypodinae of weevils Curculionidae. There are at least 50 described species in ''Euplatypus''.
Species
These 55 species belong to the genus ''Euplatypus'':
* '' Euplatypus aequali ...
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Megaplatypus –
Mesoplatypus –
Myoplatypus –
Neotrachyostus –
Oxoplatypus –
Pereioplatypus –
Peroplatypus –
Platyphysus –
Platypus
The platypus (''Ornithorhynchus anatinus''), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal Endemic (ecology), endemic to Eastern states of Australia, eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypu ...
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Teloplatypus –
Trachyostus –
Treptoplatypus –
Triozastus''
Tribus:
Schedlariini
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Schedlarius''
Tribus:
Tesserocerini
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Diapodina'' - ''
Tesserocerina''
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See also
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Ambrosia beetle
Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae ( Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. The beetles excavate tunnels in dead, stressed, and healthy trees in wh ...
References
External links
Taxa named by William Edward Shuckard
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