(male genitalia) – see Genital pocket

(head) – see submentum

(head, antenna) - the state in higher weevils where the pedicel (basal segment of the funicle) inserts subapically on the scape, causing the funicle to be held at an angle to the scape. cf. subgenicul [..]

(alimentary canal) – posterior part of the foregut comprising eight longitudinal folds, variously sclerotised in some groups. See Kissinger, 1963 and Calder, 1989

(leg, tarsus) - the individual portion of a tarsus. There are five tarsomeres in the weevil tarsus, although the fourth is very small and often hidden between the lobes of the third, hence the descrip [..]

(female genitalia) – glands associated with the female genitalia, which in at least some cases contain symbiotic organisms. Probably not homologous throughout Curculionoidea, and appear in different f [..]

(informal group of weevils) - a group of Curculionidae characterised by the adelognathous character state (q.v.), broadly equivalent to the Entiminae sensu Thompson (1992). They are thus also characte [..]

(head, mouthparts) – refers to the maxillae being concealed by the prementum.  Thompson (1992) notes that in some cases the stipites are visible at the posterior angles of the prementum, and that in f [..]

female mating with more than one male – not limited to weevils.

(male genitalia) – see Penis apodemes