Rhinostomus
Rhinostomus | |
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Museum specimen of Rhinostomus barbirostris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Subfamily: | Dryophthorinae |
Tribe: | Rhinostomini |
Genus: | Rhinostomus Rafinesque, 1815 |
Synonyms | |
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Rhinostomus is a genus of the Curculionidae family of true weevils.
In 2002, the genus Yuccaborus was determined to be a taxonomic synonym of Rhinostomus, and its only species, Y. frontalis, was moved to the genus Rhinostomus.
Species
- Rhinostomus barbirostris
- Rhinostomus frontalis - formerly Yuccaborus frontalis
- Rhinostomus meldolae
- Rhinostomus niger
- Rhinostomus oblitus
- Rhinostomus quadrisignatus
- Rhinostomus scrutator
- Rhinostomus thompsoni
References
- Gwannon
- Patricia Vaurie Weevils of the Tribe Sipalini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Rhynchophorinae) Part 1. The Genera Rhinostomus and Yuccaborus
- Key to species of Rhinostomus
- Morrone, J.J., Cuevas, P.I. (2002) Cladistics of the pantropical genus Rhinostomus (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with nomenclatural notes
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