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 placed in the subfamilies Rhynchaeninae or in Curculioninae, of family Curculionidae. 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. Reports of its occurrence in North America are erroneous.

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

Literature cited

• Anderson, R.S. 1989. Revision of the subfamily Rhynchaeninae in North America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (subscription required). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 115(3):207–312.
• Anderson, R.S., O'Brien, C.W., Salsbury, G.A. and Krauth, S.J. 2007. Orchestes alni (L.) newly discovered in North America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (subscription required). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 80(1):78–79.

Further reading

• Uber die Russelkaferarten der Gattung Stenocarus Thoms. und Rhynchaenus Clairv. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae).
• Revision of the Japanese species of Chrysocharis (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), 1.
• Hyponomological fauna of Slovenia. 25.
• The weevils of Kansas: a manual for identification.
• Digital-Weevil-Determination of West Palaearctic: Isochnus/Orchestes/Pseudorchestes/Rhamphus/Rhynchaenus/Tachyerges (Curculioninae: Rhamphini).
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