| Full name: |
Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea) |
| Short name: |
WTaxa |
| Version: |
May 2010 |
| Release date: |
2010-05-10 |
| Authors/editors: |
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A. & Lyal C.H.C. (authors), Sánchez-Ruiz M. (technical editor) |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - superfamily Curculionoidea |
| English name of the group: |
Weevils |
|
Number of living species |
79,806 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
1 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
0 |
| Number of common names: |
0 |
| Total number of names: |
79,807 |
| 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 |
| Website: |
http://wtaxa.csic.es
|
| Bibliographic citation: |
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A. & Lyal C.H.C. (authors), Sánchez-Ruiz M. (technical editor) (2025). WTaxa: Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea) (version May 2010). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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