Broumand, H. (1998) Insects of Iran. The list of Coleoptera in the insect collection of Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute. 116 pp. Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organisation, Insect Taxonomy Research Department.
Caldara, R. (1985) Revisione delle Sibinia paleartiche (Coleoptera Curculionidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 62/63, 24-105.
Caldara, R. (1986) Revisione dei Tychius precedentemente inclusi in Lepidotychius (n. syn.) (Coleoptera Curculionidae). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 127, 141-194.
Caldara, R. (1990) Revisione tassonomica delle specie paleartiche del genere Tychius Germar (Coleoptera Curculionidae). Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 25, 51-218.
Caldara, R. (2001) Phylogenetic analysis and higher classification of the tribe Mecinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Curculioninae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 71, 171-203.
Caldara, R. (2008) Revisione delle specie paleartiche del genere Gymnetron (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Aldrovandia 4, 27-104.
Caldara, R. (2010) Taxonomic notes on some Palaearctic species of the weevil genus Tychius with the description of five new species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 42, 507-520.
Caldara, R.(2013) Curculionidae: Curculioninae, pp. 51-56; 117-172 in Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Brill, Leiden.
Caldara, R. (2014) Rhinusa Stephens: a taxonomic revision of the species belonging to the R. tetra and R. bipustulata groups (Coleoptera Curculionidae). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2 (19), 1-46.
Caldara, R. & Fogato, V. (2013) Systematics of the weevil genus Mecinus Germar, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). I. Taxonomic treatment of the species. Zootaxa 3654, 1-105.
Caldara, R., Franz, N. & Oberprieler, R. G. (2014) 3.7.10. Curculioninae Latreille, 1802. pp. 589-628 in Leschen, R. A. B. & Beutel R. G. (Eds) Coleoptera, Beetles. Vol. 3. Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). Handbook of Zoology: Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
Clark, W. E. & Burke, H. R. (1977) The curculionid genus Tychius Germar: natural history and coevolution with leguminous host plants. Southwestern Entomologist 2, 106-120.
DOE (Department of Environment). 2010. Islamic Republic of Iran, Fourth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 145 pp.
Ghahari, H., Legalov, A. A. & Arzanov, Yu. G. (2009) An annotated list of the weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve and vicinity, north-western Iran. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 9(2), 177-182.
Ghahari, H. & Arzanov, Yu. G. (2012) Curculionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from Lorestan province, western Iran. Archives of Biological Sciences, Belgrade 64 (1), 359-364.
Ghahari, H., Arzanov, Yu. G., Legalov, A. A., Tabari, M. & Ostovan, H. (2010) Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iranian rice fields and surrounding grasslands. Munis Entomology & Zoology 5 (1), 163-169.
Ghahari, H. & Legalov, A. A. (2011) Contribution to the knowledge of Curculionidae (Coleoptera) from Kurdistan province (western Iran). Amurian Zoological Journal 3 (4), 345-348.
Hernández-Vera, G., Mitrović, M., Jović, J., Toševski, I., Caldara, R., Gassmann, A. & Emerson, B. C. (2010) Host-associated genetic differentiation in a seed parasitic weevil Rhinusa antirrhini (Coleptera: Curculionidae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data. Molecular Ecology 19, 2286-2300.
Hoffmann, A.(1954) Coléoptères Curculionides (deuxième partie). Faune de France 59, 487-1207.
Hoffmann A. (1958) Coléoptères Curculionides (troisième partie). Faune de France 62, 1209-1839.
Karasyov, V. P. (1994) Trophic connections and economic importance of the Tychius weevil genus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) of eastern Europe and Caucasus. Vestnik Zoologii [1994] (6), 35-40. [In Russian].
Legalov, A. A., Ghahari, H. & Arzanov, Yu. G. (2010) Annotated catalogue of Curculionid beetles (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Brachyceridae, Dryophtoridae and Curculionidae) of Iran. Amurian Zoological Journal 2 (3), 191-244.
Modarres Awal, M. (1997) List of Agricultural pests and their Natural Enemies in Iran. 429 pp. Ferdowsi University Press.
Oberprieler, R. G. (2014) 3.7. Curculionidae Latreille, 1802. pp. 423-424 in Leschen R. A. B. & Beutel, R. G. (Eds) Coleoptera, Beetles. Vol. 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). Handbook of Zoology: Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
Toševski, I., Caldara, R., Jović, J., Hernández-Vera, G., Baviera, C., Gassmann, A. & Emerson, B. C. (2015) Host-associated genetic divergence and taxonomy in the Rhinusa pilosa Gyllenhal species complex: an integrative approach. Systematic Entomology 40, 268-287.