@article {13151,
	title = {The age and phylogeny of wood boring weevils and the origin of subsociality},
	journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
	volume = {59},
	number = {3},
	year = {2011},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {708-724},
	abstract = {A large proportion of the hyperdiverse weevils are wood boring and many of these taxa have subsocial family structures. The origin and relationship between certain wood boring weevil taxa has been problematic to solve and hypotheses on their phylogenies change substantially between different studies. We aimed at testing the phylogenetic position and monophyly of the most prominent wood boring taxa Scolytinae, Platypodinae and Cossoninae, including a range of weevil outgroups with either the herbivorous or wood boring habit. Many putatively intergrading taxa were included in a broad phylogenetic analysis for the first time in this study, such as Schedlarius, Mecopelmus, Coptonotus, Dactylipalpus, Coptocorynus and allied Araucariini taxa, Dobionus, Psepholax, Amorphocerus-Porthetes, and some peculiar wood boring Conoderini with bark beetle behaviour. Data analyses were based on 128 morphological characters, rDNA nucleotides from the D2-D3 segment of 28S, and nucleotides and amino acids from the protein encoding gene fragments of CAD, ArgK, EF-1[alpha] and COI. Although the results varied for some of the groups between various data sets and analyses, one may conclude the following from this study: Scolytinae and Platypodinae are likely sister lineages most closely related to Coptonotus; Cossoninae is monophyletic (including Araucariini) and more distantly related to Scolytinae; Amorphocerini is not part of Cossoninae and Psepholax may belong to Cryptorhynchini. Likelihood estimation of ancestral state reconstruction of subsociality indicated five or six origins as a conservative estimate. Overall the phylogenetic results were quite dependent on morphological data and we conclude that more genetic loci must be sampled to improve phylogenetic resolution. However, some results such as the derived position of Scolytinae were consistent between morphological and molecular data. A revised time estimation of the origin of Curculionidae and various subfamily groups were made using the recently updated fossil age of Scolytinae (100 Ma), which had a significant influence on node age estimates. [copyright] 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Amorphocerus, Araucariini, Conoderini, Coptocorynus, Coptonotus, Dactylipalpus, Dobionus, Mecopelmus, Porthetes, Psepholax, Schedlarius},
	isbn = {1055-7903},
	author = {Jordal, Bjarte H. and Sequeira, Andrea S. and Cognato, Anthony I.}
}
@article {9345,
	title = {On the genus Nesiotophasis Peringuey, with descriptions of four new species and new synonymies (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)},
	journal = {Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona Botanica Zoologia},
	volume = {35},
	year = {2011},
	month = {2011},
	pages = {21-36},
	abstract = {Four new species of Nesiotophasis Peringuey from South Africa, N. boscimanus n. sp., N. dubius n. sp., N. inopinatus n. sp. and N., superstes n. sp. are described and illustrated. The following new synonymies are established: Nesiotophasis promontorii (Peringuey, 1908) (= Paranesiotes abbreviatus Voss, 1974, syn. n.), N. capicola (Peringuey, 1908) (= Paranesiotes ferrugineus Voss, 1974, syn. n.), N. integer (Voss, 1974) (= Paranesiotes rudebecki Voss, 1974, syn. n.). Descriptions of the genus and of all its members are included, as well as a key to species.},
	keywords = {Nesiotophasis},
	isbn = {1590-8399},
	author = {Bello, Cesare and Osella, Giuseppe and Colonnelli, Enzo}
}
