This is a website for weevil taxonomists and others interested in the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea, with the aim of facilitating cooperation and information-sharing worldwide. It will enable weevil specialists to share information online and together develop a community resource with data on weevil hosts, morphology, systematics, taxonomic characters, literature and other areas of mutual interest.
The amount of information available is now vastly outstripping our ability to keep track of it. For several years weevil taxonomists have realised they need a web resource where they can discuss issues and share information, for example on taxonomic character states, to minimise confusion in the literature and enable acceleration of research. This site grew from that need.

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Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga has asked that we discuss weevil charactersand their names.  We are all guilty of not fully explaining the characters we use, and we all know that there are numerous synonyms for morphological features.  On the Forums area Miguel has introduced the topic and I have added a (very!) incomplete table.  Everyone is welcome to add to / correct this, and I will be adding more shortly.  Chris L.