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Tribe Mecinini


Systematics of the Holarctic species of the weevil genus Cleopomiarus Pierce (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
By Caldara, R. & A. A. Legalov
Journal of Insect Biodiversity 4(6):1-47, 2016

Rhinusa asellus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a Eurasian Weevil New to North America, with a Summary of...
By DiGirolomo, M.F., Hoebeke, E.R., and Caldara, R.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2019
https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.121.4.580

DiGirolomo, M.F., Hoebeke, E.R., and Caldara, R. 2019. Rhinusa asellus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a Eurasian Weevil New to North America, with a Summary of Other Adventive Rhinusa in North America and a Key to Species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 121(4), 580-593.

Rhinusa Stephens: a taxonomic revision of the species belonging to the R. tetra and R. bipustulata groups (Coleoptera Curculi...
By Caldara, Roberto
Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(19): 1-46, 2014
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First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini
By Sweeney, J., R.S. Anderson, and R.P. Webster
The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66: 297-304, 2012
Full title: "First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini"

Includes updated key to the genus.

Revision of the subfamily Rhynchaeninae in North America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
By Anderson, R.S.
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 115: 207-312, 1989
Much useful information on our species, but see (1) for information on additional introduced species.

First record of the Palearctic root weevil Otiorhynchus porcatus (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) in the US...
By Hoebeke E.R., Griffin S.R.
Col. Bull. 69: 679-687, 2015
Full title: First record of the Palearctic root weevil Otiorhynchus porcatus (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) in the United States and additional records of other adventive weevils occurring on the Isles of Shoals (Maine and New Hampshire)
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New Rhynchophora III.
By Schaeffer, C.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 16: 213-222., 1908
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Schaeffer, C. 1908. New Rhynchophora III. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 16: 213-222.

A Catalog of the Scolytidae and Playpodidae, Part 1 Bibliography
By Stephen L. Wood
Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs, No. 11, 1987
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Part 2 is Taxonomic Index(1).