weevil families (Re: Information)

[Doug Yanega]

>Dear colleages,
>I would like to obtain information about collections that house specimens
>of Dryophthoridae (=formerly Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae)

Can Gerardo or anyone else cite who split the Curculionidae up to create
this family (and, I presume, many others)? Is this widely accepted? It
would be nice to know what the accepted boundaries of families/subfamilies
are in the Curculionoidea these days, since the last I'd heard the
Curculionidae had been *expanded* to include Scolytidae (at the very
least), rather than divided into smaller families.

Thanks,


Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315
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