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Rhamphini is a
weevil Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small – less than in length – and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several fa ...
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...
in the subfamily
Curculioninae The beetle subfamily Curculioninae is part of the weevil family (biology), family Curculionidae. It contains over 23,500 described species in 2,200 genera, and is therefore the largest weevil subfamily. Given that the beetle order (biology), or ...
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Genera

* '' Dinorhopala'' Pascoe, 1860 * '' Imachra'' F.P.Pascoe, 1874 * '' Indodinorrhopalus'' Indodinorrhopalus H.R.Pajni & S.Sood, 1981 * '' Isochnus'' C.G.Thomson, 1859 * '' Ixalma'' F.P.Pascoe, 1871 * '' Laemorchestes'' G.C.Champion, 1903 * '' Macrorhynchaenus'' A.Hustache, 1933 * '' Megorchestes'' * '' Morimotonomizo'' H.Kojima, 1997 * ''
Orchestes ''Orchestes'' is a genus of beetles either classified in the subfamily Rhynchaeninae or in the tribe Rhamphini of the subfamily Curculioninae, of the family Curculionidae. It encompasses six species in North America, including ''Orchestes stepp ...
'' Illiger, 1798 * '' Pritmus'' Pajni & Sood, 1981 * '' Pseudendaeus'' Voss, 1960 * '' Rhamphonyx'' E.Voss, 1964 * '' Rhamphus'' Clairville 1798 * '' Rhynchaenophaenus'' E.Voss, 1956 * '' Rhynchaenus'' Clairville 1798 * '' Sphaerorchestes'' K.Morimoto & S.Miyakawa, 1996 * '' Strabonus'' Kuschel, 2008 * '' Synorchestes'' E.Voss, 1958 * '' Tachyerges'' Schénherr, 1825 * '' Tachygonidius'' Champion, 1907 * '' Tachygonus'' Guérin-Ménéville, 1833 * '' Technites'' C.J.Schoenherr, 1843 * '' Viticis'' Lea & A.M., 1930


References

* Rafinesque, C.S. 1815: Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme. L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. * Kojima, H. 2011: Magorchestes, a new genus of Rhamphini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Laos. Japanese journal of systematic entomology, 17(1): 109–113. * Korotyaev B.A. 1994: New and a little known species of the weevil genus Rhamphus from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and Namibia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 3(1): 107–110. * Korotyaev, B.A., 2012: New species of the weevil genus Pseudorchestes (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from the central Palaearctic region. Entomological Review 92 (5): 593–598. Abstract: doi: 10.1134/S0013873812050132. Original Russian Text: Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, 90 (2): 243–248. * Kuschel, G. 2008: Curculionoidea (weevils) of New Caledonia and Vanuatu: ancestral families and some Curculionidae. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 197: 99-250. Curculioninae Polyphaga tribes {{Curculioninae-stub