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Sitophilus

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Description

Sitophilus is a genus of weevils in the tribe Litosomini. Some species are familiar as pests of stored food products. Notable species include the rice weevil (S. oryzae), wheat weevil (S. granarius), and maize weevil (S. zeamais).

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1170172	https://www.gbif.org/species/1170172
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	230342	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=230342

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Dryophthoridae : Sitophilus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Curculionidae : Sitophilus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
-	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Curculionidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Rhynchophorinae	Schonherr 1833
tribe	Litosomini	Lacordaire 1866
subtribe	Sitophilina	Csiki 1936
genus	Sitophilus	Schoenherr 1838

Scientific Name

Sitophilus Schoenherr, 1838

Name Published In

Gen. Spec. Curcul., 4(2): 967

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sitophilus	genus	belongs to Litosomini	stated with evidence	Zherikhin, 2000
Sitophilus	genus	belongs to Sitophilina	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

8.70 - 5.33 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

V. V. Zherikhin. 2000. Tertiary brachycerid weevils (Coleoptera: Brachycerida) from the collections of Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, with a review of other fossil Brachyceridae. Paleontological Journal 34(Suppl 3):S333-S343

Common Name(s)

Klanders

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitophilus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sitophilus granarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sitophilus linearis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sitophilus oryzae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sitophilus punctatissimus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	8.70 Ma Miocene	8.70 Ma Miocene
Sitophilus zeamais species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Calandra Gistl, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Dryophthoridae : *Calandra*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1838	Sitophilus Schoenherr
2000	Sitophilus Zherikhin p. S338
2015	Sitophilus Legalov p. 1496

References

Zherikhin V. V. (2000) Tertiary brachycerid weevils (Coleoptera: Brachycerida) from the collections of Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, with a review of other fossil Brachyceridae, Paleontological Journal 34 Suppl 3, S333-S343

Legalov A. A. (2015) Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 49, 1442-1513

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Anderson, Robert S., 2002: The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama: Checklist with keys, new synonymy and descriptions of new species of Cactophagus, Mesocordylus, Metamasius and Rhodobaenus (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea). Zootaxa, vol. 80. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Gen. et Sp. Curc., 4 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Lawrence, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds., 1996: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. 14-820. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal, 1999: null. A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). 315. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 572 Suppression under the Plenary Powers of the generic name Calandea Clairville & Schellenberg, 1798, and validation under the same Powers of the specific name abbreviatus Fabricius, 1787, as published in the binomen Curculio abbreviatus (class Insecta, order Coleoptera).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 17(3-4), 112-116 (1959) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Gustafsson, B. (Col.) (2004) Catalogus Coleopterorum Sueciae. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Excelfil hämtad från http://www.nrm.se/en/catalogus.html.se. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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