Eustylini is a primarily

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...

weevil tribe in the subfamily

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Taxonomy

The tribe Eustylini was named for the first time by

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP (; 12 May 1802 – 21 November 1861), often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French Catholic priest, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in ...

in 1863, although, when first named, the tribe (Groupe Eustylides, p. 205) only contained three genera: ''Aptolemus'' (currently in Naupactini), ''Brachystylus'', and ''Eustylus''. In 1986 the Eustylini contained most of its current genera, mostly due to revised taxonomic placements made by Guillermo Kuschel. The latest additions were made by Franz in 2012 by transferring former members of other tribes including Geonemini, Phyllobiini, and Tanymecini. The type species of some genera ('' Compsus'', '' Diaprepes'', '' Eustylus'', '' Exorides'', and ''

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'') were redescribed by Franz. Most species of Eustylini are only known from their original descriptions.

Description

A diagnosis for the tribe was offered by Girón 2020:

Distribution

Eustylini ranges from south-western

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, with its highest diversity in the

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and northern

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