''Taphroderes'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

weevil Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small – less than in length – and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several fa ...

s from the

Americas The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ...

. ''Taphroderes'' belongs to the subfamily

Brentinae Brentinae is a subfamily of sometimes called "straight-snouted weevils" in the family of beetles known as Brentidae; both were based on the type genus '' Brentus'' and erected by Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.Billberg GJ (1820) ''Enumeratio Insec ...

and typical of tribe Taphroderini.Biolib.cz: genus ''Taphroderes'' Schönherr, 1823
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Cladogram A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q14926915 Brentidae Taxa named by Carl Johan Schönherr Polyphaga genera