Merhynchites

Merhynchites
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea
Family:	Attelabidae
Tribe:	Rhynchitini
Genus:	Merhynchites Sharp, 1889

Merhynchites is a genus of leaf and bud weevils in the beetle family Attelabidae. There are about 12 described species in Merhynchites.

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Merhynchites:

Merhynchites bicolor (Fabricius, 1775) (rose curculio)
Merhynchites cockerelli Pierce, 1913
Merhynchites creticus Voss, 1955
Merhynchites hungaricus Sharp, 1889
Merhynchites palmi Hamilton, 1979
Merhynchites palmii (Schaeffer, 1905)
Merhynchites piceus Pierce, 1913
Merhynchites ruber Fairmaire
Merhynchites tricarinatus (Green, 1920)
Merhynchites ventralis Pierce, 1913
Merhynchites viridilustrans Pierce, 1913
Merhynchites wickhami (Cockerell, 1912) (western rose curculio)

References

↑ "Merhynchites Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
↑ "Merhynchites". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
↑ "Merhynchites genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26093-1.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-25916-4.

Taxon identifiers
Merhynchites	Wikidata: Q3306467 Wikispecies: Merhynchites BioLib: 696506 BOLD: 181245 BugGuide: 30858 CoL: 8HJXR EoL: 67361 EPPO: 1MERHG GBIF (old): 1164599 iNaturalist: 70053 IRMNG: 1200863 ITIS: 617209 NCBI: 122738 Open Tree of Life: 58423

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