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Weevil, Leaf Beetle and Longhorn Families

Weevil, Leaf Beetle and Longhorn Families is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the beetle families of weevils, leaf beetles and longhorn beetles. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a family of weevils, leaf beetles or longhorn beetles. It excludes ground beetles and the other beetle families. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.

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Curculionidae (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Curculionidae, Lead
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The Curculionidae are a family of weevils, commonly called snout beetles or true weevils.
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Attelabidae (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Attelabidae, Lead
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The Attelabidae is a widespread family of weevils.
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Brentidae (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Brentidae, Lead
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Brentidae is a cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils; they have sometimes been called "primitive weevils", but this name also applies to taxa such as the Belidae.
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Anthribidae (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Anthribidae, Lead
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Anthribidae is a family of beetles also known as fungus weevils.
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Leaf beetle (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Chrysomelidae, Lead
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The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families.
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Wikipedia: Longhorn beetle
WikipediaHas Member: Cerambycidae, Lead
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The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described.
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