Platypodinae

Platypodinae
Platypus cylindrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Platypodinae Shuckard, 1840
Tribes

Platypodinae is a weevil subfamily in the family Curculionidae. They are important early decomposers of dead woody plant material in wet tropics; all but two species are ambrosia beetles that cultivate fungi in tunnels excavated in dead wood as the sole food for their larvae. They are sometimes known as pinhole borers.^[1]

Genera[]

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• Austroplatypus – – – – – – – – – – Euplatypus – – – – – – – – – Platypus – – – –

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See also[]

• Ambrosia beetle

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