“…Although the spermatheca has been studied to diagnose different groups of Curculionidae, because it presents characteristics with high taxonomic value (Aslam, 1961;Sanders, 1960), the literature presents inconsistencies in its nomenclature (Tables 4-7). A few studies recognize the spermatheca as an organ integrated by different elements (Erbey et al, 2010;Sanders, 1960), and in most of them (Anderson, 1984;Brizzola dos Santos & Rosado-Neto, 2010;Lanteri & del Río, 2008;Omar, 2012;Velázquezde Castro et al, 2007), including those focused on species of Scolytinae (Pérez-Silva & Equihua-Martínez, 2016;Román-Ruíz et al, 2017;Rubio et al, 2008), particularly within Dendroctonus (Armendáriz-Toledano et al, 2014García-Román et al, 2019;Ríos-Reyes et al, 2008), the term spermatheca is used to refer only to the receptacle (Table 6). Therefore, we suggest that in the future the nomenclature proposed by De Marzo (2009) be used, which can be applied to a greater number of species and larger taxonomic scales, facilitating the comparison of this organ for taxonomic and phylogenetic purposes.…”