Platypodinae

Subfamily of beetles

Platypodinae

Platypus cylindrus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Curculionidae
Subfamily:  | Platypodinae
Shuckard, 1840
Tribes

* Mecopelmini
* Platypodini
* Schedlariini
* Tesserocerini

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.[1]

## Genera[edit]

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[2]

## See also[edit]

* Ambrosia beetle

## References[edit]

1. ^ Jordal, Bjarte H. (2015). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the weevil subfamily Platypodinae reveals evolutionarily conserved range patterns". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 92: 294–307. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.028. PMID 26190520.
2. ^ WikiSpecies  Data related to Platypodinae at Wikispecies

## External links[edit]

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Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3392058
* Wikispecies: Platypodinae
* AFD: Platypodinae
* BioLib: 14026
* BugGuide: 45346
* Fauna Europaea: 248942
* Fauna Europaea (new): 9b3be2a9-3e6b-47ae-b781-3513e06b76c2
* Fossilworks: 69438
* iNaturalist: 340467
* ITIS: 678831
* NCBI: 122835
* NZOR: e9aae9ca-cd8f-4d35-a9dc-a0624f6e379a

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