Zootaxa 3896 (1): 001–481 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3896.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:457B8988-DBF5-432B-9F30-A7BE0344CDCE ZOOTAXA 3896 Annotated catalogue of Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) KIMBERI R. PULLEN, DEBBIE JENNINGS & ROLF G. OBERPRIELER Weir’s Wonderful Weevil—Tomweirius mirus Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by R. Anderson: 14 Jul. 2014; published: 18 Dec. 2014 KIMBERI R. PULLEN, DEBBIE JENNINGS & ROLF G. OBERPRIELER Annotated catalogue of Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) (Zootaxa 3896) 481 pp.; 30 cm. 18 Dec. 2014 ISBN 978-1-77557-597-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-598-6 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2014 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2014 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 3896 (1) © 2014 Magnolia Press PULLEN ET AL. Annotated catalogue of Australian weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) KIMBERI R. PULLEN, DEBBIE JENNINGS & ROLF G. OBERPRIELER1 CSIRO, Australian National Insect Collection, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. 1Corresponding author Table of contents Abstract . 4 Introduction . 4 Discovery and documentation of the Australian weevil fauna . 6 Composition of the Australian weevil fauna . 13 The burden of synonymy . 19 Materials and methods . 23 Acknowledgements . 25 Summary of taxonomic and nomenclatural changes. 26 New taxa . 26 New names . 26 New generic synonymies . 26 New species synonymies . 26 New combinations . 27 Type species designations . 29 Lectotype designations . 29 Catalogue . 30 Synopsis of family-level classification . 30 Taxa occurring in Australia . 33 Family NEMONYCHIDAE Bedel, 1882 . 33 Subfamily Rhinorhynchinae Voss, 1922 . 33 Family ANTHRIBIDAE Billberg, 1820 . 34 Subfamily Anthribinae Billberg, 1820 . 34 Subfamily Choraginae Kirby, 1819 . 41 Family BELIDAE Schoenherr, 1826 . 43 Subfamily Belinae Schoenherr, 1826 . 43 Family ATTELABIDAE Billberg, 1820 . 50 Subfamily Rhynchitinae Gistel, 1848 . 50 Subfamily Attelabinae Billberg, 1820 . 53 Family CARIDAE Thompson, 1992 . 56 Family BRENTIDAE Billberg, 1820 . 56 Subfamily Eurhynchinae Lacordaire, 1863 . 56 Subfamily Brentinae Billberg, 1820 . 57 Subfamily Apioninae Schoenherr, 1823 . 65 Subfamily Nanophyinae Gistel, 1848 . 70 Family CURCULIONIDAE Latreille, 1802 . 71 Subfamily Dryophthorinae Schoenherr, 1825 . 71 Subfamily Platypodinae Shuckard, 1840 . 74 Subfamily Brachycerinae Billberg, 1820 . 78 Subfamily Cyclominae Schoenherr, 1826. 82 Unplaced to Subfamily . 121 Subfamily Entiminae Schoenherr, 1823 . 134 Subfamily Curculioninae Latreille, 1802 . 183 Subfamily Molytinae Schoenherr, 1823 . 218 Subfamily Conoderinae Schoenherr, 1833 . ..