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Genus Rhinostomus

Yuccaborus frontalis - Rhinostomus frontalis

Yuccaborus frontalis (LeConte) - Rhinostomus frontalis

Rhinostomus frontalis? - Rhinostomus frontalis

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

Genus Rhinostomus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Yuccaborus LeConte 1876

Explanation of Names

Rhinostomus Rafinesque 1815

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 8 total(1)

Range

Pantropical; in our area, sw US(1)

Remarks

the only member of its tribe, Rhinostomini Kuschel 1995; formerly treated in Orthognathini(1)

Works Cited

1.	Cladistics of the pantropical genus Rhinostomus (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with nomenclatural notes Morrone J.J., Cuevas P.I. 2002. Entomol. Amer. 110: 376-388.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 17 June, 2008 - 4:01pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 July, 2019 - 11:51am

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