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Tribe Orthognathini

Orthognathus subparallelus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Dryophthorinae
Tribe Orthognathini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhinostomus Rafinesque (=Yuccaborus LeC.) used to be treated in this tribe
Numbers
a single species in our area(1); 3 genera total(2)
Range
2 genera neotropical, one paleotropical(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Cladistics of the pantropical genus Rhinostomus (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with nomenclatural notes
Morrone J.J., Cuevas P.I. 2002. Entomol. Amer. 110: 376-388.