Rhinusa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Superfamilia: Curculionoidea

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Curculioninae
Tribus: Mecinini
Genus: Rhinusa
Species:
bipustulata Species Group

Species (6):
R. algirica – R. bipustulata – R. emmrichi – R. neta – R. pelletieri – R. scrophulariae
tetra Species Group

R. acifer – R. asellus – R. comosa – R. ensifer – R. moroderi – R. tenuirostris – R. tetra – R. verbasci – R. weilli
Name

Rhinusa Stephens, 1829
References

Stephens, J.F. 1829. A systematic catalogue of British insects: being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities, containing also the references to every English writer on entomology, and to the principal foreign authors, with all the published British genera to the present time: 1–416. BHL Reference page.
Caldara, R. 2001: Phylogenetic analysis and higher classification of the tribe Mecinini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae<, Curculioninae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 71: 171–203.
Caldara, R. 2014. Rhinusa Stephens: a taxonomic revision of the species belonging to the R. tetra and R. bipustulata groups (Coleoptera Curculionidae). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 2(19): 1–46.Reference page.
Caldara, R.; Sassi, D.; Toševski, I. 2010: Phylogeny of the weevil genus Rhinusa Stephens based on adult morphological characters and host plant information (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa, 2627: 39–56. Preview
Caldara, R. et al. 2012: Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the Rhinusa tetra (Fabricius) species complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zootaxa 3329: 31–40. Preview Reference page.
Ścibior, R. & Łętowski, J. 2018. The morphology of the preimaginal stages of Rhinusa neta (Germar, 1821) and notes on its biology (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Mecinini). Zookeys, 807: 29–46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.807.28365 Reference page.
Toševski, I., Caldara, R., Jović, J., Hernández-Vera, G., Baviera, C., Gassmann, A. & Emerson, B.C. 2015. Host-associated genetic divergence and taxonomy in the Rhinusa pilosa Gyllenhal species complex: an integrative approach. Systematic Entomology 40(1): 268–287. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12109 Reference page.

Rhinusa is a genus of true weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are at least 20 described species in Rhinusa.[1][2][3][4]
Rhinusa tetra

Species

These 23 species belong to the genus Rhinusa:

Rhinusa acephalus Stephens, 1829 c
Rhinusa acifer Caldara, 2014 c g
Rhinusa algiricum Caldara, 2001 c
Rhinusa antirhini Stephens, 1829 c
Rhinusa antirrhini Schoenherr, 1825 c g b (toadflax seedhead weevil)
Rhinusa bipustulata (Rossi, P., 1792) c g
Rhinusa brevipilis (Desbrochers, 1893) g
Rhinusa collina Gistel, 1848 c
Rhinusa comosa Rosenschoeld, 1838 g
Rhinusa ensifer Caldara, 2014 c g
Rhinusa exigua Caldara & Korotyaev, 2010 c
Rhinusa fuentei Pic, 1906 g
Rhinusa intaminata Stephens, 1829 c
Rhinusa linariae (Panzer, 1792) c g b (root-gall weevil)
Rhinusa mauritii Caldara, 2001 c
Rhinusa neta (Germar, 1821) b
Rhinusa pelletieri Caldara, 2014 c g
Rhinusa scrophulariae Caldara in Magnano, Colonneli & Caldara in van Harten (ed.), 2009 c
Rhinusa smreczynskii (Fremuth, 1972) g
Rhinusa tetra (Fabricius, 1792) c g b (European curculionid weevil)
Rhinusa tricolor Stephens, 1829 c
Rhinusa verbasci Rosenschoeld, 1838 g
Rhinusa weilli Caldara, 2014 c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[5] c = Catalogue of Life,[1] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]
References

"Browse Rhinusa". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"Rhinusa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"Rhinusa Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
"Rhinusa Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.

"ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-07.

Further reading

Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 84-605-9994-9.
Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys. Pensoft Publishers (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Majka, C.G.; Anderson, R.S.; McCorquodale, D.B. (2007). "The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...". The Canadian Entomologist.
O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.