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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Mecinini » Rhinusa

Genus Rhinusa

the cutest weevil, dorsal - Rhinusa tetra

European Curculionid Weevil - Rhinusa tetra

CURCULIONIDAE - Rhinusa tetra? - European curculionid weevil - Rhinusa tetra

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 Curculioninae

Tribe Mecinini

Genus Rhinusa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

formerly treated as a subgen. of Gymnetron Schönherr 1825

Explanation of Names

Rhinusa Stephens 1829

Numbers

5 spp. in our area, all adventive(1)(2); close to 60 total(3)

Identification

Front coxae touching, unlike in Cleopomiarus

Key to species • key to NA species in (4)

Range

Palæarctic genus; all our spp. are native to Europe, adventive in NA and now occur across Canada and the US (scattered records)

Food

various Scrophulariaceæ (including Yellow and Dalmatian Toadflax); usually specialize on one or a few closely related host species

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.	The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia... Majka C.G., Anderson R.S., McCorquodale D.B. 2007. Can. Entomol. 139: 397–442.

3.	BioLib.cz

4.	Rhinusa asellus (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a Eurasian Weevil New to North America, with a Summary of... DiGirolomo, M.F., Hoebeke, E.R., and Caldara, R. 2019. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 12 May, 2006 - 2:56pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Boris Bueche, v belov, onegunah, mfdigiro
Last updated 27 August, 2025 - 5:52pm

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