Platypodinae

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Kingdom Animalia Infraorder Cucujiformia Phylum Arthropoda Rank Family		Suborder Polyphaga Superfamily Curculionoidea Higher classification True weevils Order Beetle

Subfamily Platypodinae Shuckard, 1840 Similar Beetle, True weevils, Insect, Weevil, Cossoninae

Platypodinae is a weevil subfamily in the family Curculionidae. They are important early decomposers of dead woody plant material in wet tropics; all but two species are ambrosia beetles 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

Mecopelmus

Tribus: Platypodini

Austroplatypus – Baiocis – Carchesiopygus – Costaroplatus – Crossotarsus – Cylindropalpus – Dendroplatypus – Dinoplatypus – Doliopygus – Epiplatypus – Euplatypus – Megaplatypus – Mesoplatypus – Myoplatypus – Neotrachyostus – Oxoplatypus – Pereioplatypus – Peroplatypus – Platyphysus – Platypus – Teloplatypus – Trachyostus – Treptoplatypus – Triozastus

Tribus: Schedlariini

Schedlarius

Tribus: Tesserocerini

Diapodina - Tesserocerina

References

Platypodinae Wikipedia

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