Rhynchaenus
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| Genus: | Rhynchaenus Illiger, 1798 |
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| Curculio viminalis Fabricius, 1775 | |
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Rhynchaenus is a genus of beetles alternatively placed in the subfamily Rhynchaeninae or in Curculioninae, of family Curculionidae. It previously included members of the genus Orchestes, but is now restricted to a vastly smaller group of species, all of which occur in Europe, Japan, or North Africa and feed on plants in the family Asteraceae. Reports of its occurrence in North America refer to Orchestes species.