Rhynchaenus

Rhynchaenus
Rhynchaenus fagi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Curculioninae
Tribe: Rhamphini
Genus: Rhynchaenus
Illiger, 1798
Type species
Curculio viminalis
Fabricius, 1775
Species

Rhynchaenus xylostei

Rhynchaenus is a genus of beetles alternatively place in the subfamilies Rhynchaeninae or in Curculioninae, of family Curculionidae.[1][2] It previously included the genus Orchestes, but is now restricted to a smaller group of species, all of which occur in Europe, Japan, or North Africa and feed on Asteraceae plants.[3] Reports of its occurrence in North America are erroneous.[4]

Species

A large number of species have been assigned under the Rhynchaenus genera although some species originally assigned to Rhynchaenus now belong in a different genera[5][6]

References

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Further reading

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