Oberprieler, Rolf <br/><br/>
Systematics and Phylogeny of Weevils 

 -  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2019 
 - 1 electronic resource (458 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> This Special Issue on the Systematics and Phylogeny of Weevils presents 31 new research papers on one of the most diverse and successful groups of animals on Earth, the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea. It was in part inspired to commemorate the extraordinary life and scientific achievements of Guillermo (&ldquo;Willy&rdquo;) Kuschel (1918&ndash;2017), who shaped this field of science over the last century like no other weevil systematist. The papers in this memorial issue span weevil faunas from all over the globe, including South and Central America, Africa, Europe and the Near East, South-East Asia, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. They include major advances on the phylogeny and classification of the &ldquo;broad-nosed&rdquo; weevils (Entiminae), on the weevils associated with American cycads and on the unique extinct weevil fauna preserved in the 100-million-year-old Burmese amber, when weevils started to diversify alongside the oldest angiosperm plants. They comprise a tribute to Willy Kuschel, the proceedings of a weevil symposium held in his honor in 2016 in Orlando, Florida, 24 systematic studies (including seven phylogenetic analyses) and five other contributions on the diversity, biology, distribution, evolution and fossil history of weevils. In the papers collated in this volume, 30 new genera and 92 new species of weevils are described and a new family of extinct weevils is recognized. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-03897-669-1 9783038976691 9783038976684 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-03897-669-1  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Oxycoryninae structural alignment SH test Titilayo barclayi tectal aedeagus Urodontinae identification Aciphylla Urodontidius spatio-temporal diffusion Titilayo biological control systematics Pharaxonothinae spermatheca Namibia new taxa mt-Cox1 Curculionidae Poor Knights Islands Acentrusini silk production Kuschelorhynchus Titilayo perrinae diversity riparian ribosomal markers stable populations forest disturbance key biogeography Broad-nosed weevils Tanysphyrini Molytinae biography Chatham Islands diagnostics weevils Israel Australia publications Guillermo Kuschel specialist weevils target host molecular phylogenetics cycad pollination phytophagy combined evidence New Guinea Araceae adults amber preparation broad-nosed weevils Brachycerinae Eucalyptus Sclerocardius ecology tribal relationships fogging Rhyncolini Curculionoidea phenology Rhyncolina evolution invasive species co-dispersal through space and time CT scanning faunal inventories Titilayo geiseri aquatic mitochondrial genomes host plant taxonomy flightlessness larva life history Titilayo turneri weevil larvae 1K Weevils Project Borneo morphology invasive Spartecerus pollination DNA barcoding longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae) classification Aethiopacorep africanus South Africa phylogeny weevil fauna KH test tropical forest canopies Mesophyletidae neotype distribution mitochondrial COI semi-aquatic COI Entiminae mature larva homonym Alien Naupactini Syzygium Neotropical region galling habit Mimaulus Afroryzophilus genitalia Cossoninae Titilayo garnerae Sclerocardiini Titilayo takanoi Anchonini AU test Coleoptera fossils larvae Pinus radiata comparative morphology obituary parasitic plants Curculioninae Cryptoplini microclimate hygrophilous palm weevils weevil Papuan region Dichotrachelini Belidae new species Afrotropical region Patagonia Cape Verde Erotylidae species competition Hoop Pine Araucariaceae mimicry constraint analysis exotic elytro-tergal stridulation Titilayo saotomense integrative taxonomy biodiversity angiosperm associations non-target host Cretaceous Klinki Pine Macadamia Pantomorus-Naupactus complex