Curculionina Latreille, 1802

Pelsue, Frank W. & O’Brien, Charles W., 2011, A redefinition of the Curculionini of the world, with a key to subtribes and genera, and two new genera: Pseudoculio and Megaoculis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae), Zootaxa 3102, pp. 27-49 : 31

Curculionina Latreille, 1802

Diagnosis: This subtribe represents the majority of the species in the Curculionini and is differentiated by the following: rostrum usually long and tubular particularly in female, but some species have rostrum broad to insertion of scape then tubular to apex; antennal scape long in Curculio or short, less than half to half length of funiculus in Indocurculio ; elytra flat to slightly convex in lateral view; circumscutellar suture impressed (Fig. 19);lateral margins of elytra generally not sinuous may be subsinuate; male pygidium not covered; tarsal claws appendiculate; Curculio cosmopolitan and Indocurculio Asian to Austral Pacific regions.