Rhynchitidae
Sign in to savethumb|thumbtime=0:04|Byctiscus populi in copula and leaf-rolling
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyRhynchitidae
Observations recorded7,574
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- Family
- Rhynchitidae
- Collections
- LCDI, UNM, NAUF, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Mozambique, Liberia, CôTe D'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gabon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Curculionoidea
- Image
- Flickr - Lukjonis - Beetle - Byctiscus betulae (1).jpg
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- taxon name
- Rhynchitidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Rhynchitidae
- Commons category
- Rhynchitinae
- taxon common name
- snutebladrullere
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thumb|thumbtime=0:04|Byctiscus populi in copula and leaf-rolling
Rhynchitidae, the tooth-nosed snout weevils, are small beetles (1.5 to 6.5 mm) that are usually found in vegetation. They usually use buds, fruits, or seeds for oviposition. The tooth-nosed snout weevils receive this name due to the teeth on the edges of their mandibles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhynchitidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.