A  WORLD CATALOGUE OF FAMILIES AND GENERA OF CURCULIONOIDEA
(excepting SCOLYTIDAE and PLATYPODIDAE)
 
Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga
Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva
 Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
 José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2; E-28006 Madrid, Spain
e-mail: zarazaga@mncn.csic.es
 
Christopher H. C.  Lyal
Department of Entomology
 The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
e-mail: chcl@nhm.ac.uk
 

CONTENTS

Introduction

Compilation of lists: methods

Conventions employed in list
        Literature citations
        Ordination
        Family-group names.
        Genus-group names.

Problem publications

Submissions to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

Higher systematics of Curculionoidea: treatment of families

Acknowledgments

Nomenclatural changes proposed in Catalogue
        New taxa
        New replacement names
        Replacement names already available for junior homonyms
        New synonyms
        Resurrected names
        Changes of status
        Transfers
        Type-species designations
        New replacement names and new synonymies for species
        Taxa originally described as Curculionoidea and not presently included
        Taxa originally described outside Curculionoidea and now included

Synopsis of system followed

Catalogue

Unplaced names
        Recent
        Fossil

References

Appendixes.
        New generic descriptions.
        Available genus-group names absent from Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus and  supplements.
        Genus-group names present in Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus and supplements, in need of modifications.

Indexes
        Family- and genus- group names.
        Species mentioned in catalogue.