Genus Rhinusa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

European Curculionid Weevil - Rhinusa tetra

Steigerwald Lake Beetle 8 - Rhinusa tetra

CURCULIONIDAE European Curculionid Weevil Rhinusa tetra - Rhinusa antirrhini

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 Schonherr

Explanation of Names

Rhinusa Stephens 1829

Numbers

5 spp. in our area, all adventive(1)(2)

Identification

Front coxae touching (difference from Cleopomiarus)

Key to species

Images of all the spp. present in NA here and here

Key to NA species in (3)

Range

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

Food

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

Internet References

Journal of Insect Biodiversity. Rhinusa Stephens: a taxonomic revision of the species belonging to the R. tetra and R. bipustulata groups (Coleoptera Curculionidae) Article (PDF Available) in Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(19):1-46 · October 2014 with 130 Reads DOI: 10.12976/jib/2014.2.19

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... C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.

3.	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 19 November, 2021 - 6:29am

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