Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Synonyms: Orthognathinae Lacordaire 1866, Rhynchophorinae Schonherr 1833
Full reference: C. F. Schoenherr. 1825. Continuatio, tabulae synopticae familiae Curculionidum. Isis von Oken 1825:581-588
Parent taxon: Curculionidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999, Bouchard et al. 2011, Chamorro et al. 2021, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Legalov 2015, Legalov 2016, Legalov 2019, Legalov 2019, Legalov et al. 2019, Legalov et al. 2019, Poinar et al. 2017, Poinar and Legalov 2014 and Shin et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Brachycerinae, Erirhininae, Brachycerites, Ocladiinae, Raymondionyminae
Subtaxa: Dryophthorini Orthognathini Rhynchophorini Stromboscerini
Type: Dryophthorus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (1 collection), France (1), Peru (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (4), France (1), Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2), United States (4: Colorado)
Total: 21 collections including 31 occurrences