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Definition of Family Curculionidae
1. Noun. True weevils: snout beetles.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Snout Beetle, Anthonomus, Genus Anthonomus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Curculionidae
Literary usage of Family Curculionidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1878)
"The same author, /. cp 123 et seq., associates under the name Phylo- nomini, as
a tribe of another sub-family " Curculionidae genuini " of his ..."
2. Zoology of the Invertebrata: A Text-book for Students. by Arthur Everett Shipley (1893)
"Family CURCULIONIDAE.—The weevils are easily recognised by the prolongation of
their head into a snout; the antennae FIG. 203. 1. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... of the family Curculionidae. All the species are described and part of them
figured. Many species and a few genera are new. 'Bull. Missouri Agric. ..."
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