Full name:

Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea)

Short name:

WTaxa

Version:

9, Aug 2006

Release date:

–

Authors/editors:

MA Alonso-Zarazaga & CHC Lyal (authors), M Sánchez-Ruiz (technical editor)

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - superfamily Curculionoidea

Number of species names:

80,728 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

0 accepted names; 0 synonyms

Number of common names:

0

Total number of names:

80,728

Abstract:

The Electronic Catalogue of Weevil Names is a project in progress. Ultimately it will contain all family, genus and species-group names in the Curculionoidea, a group of beetles with about 60,000 described species which contains many important insects, including the bark beetles (Scolytinae) and powder-post beetles (Platypodinae). Currently the database contains all generic and family-group names, in their current taxonomic position, and based on Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal’s (1999, 2002, 2005 ) catalogue of weevil family and genus names. Species-group names are being added, but are not yet all present nor checked against original publication or current placement.

Organization:

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain & Natural History Museum, London, UK

Web site:

http://wtaxa.csic.es