Rhynchites

This genus consists at present of about 100 species, distributed in the continental regions of both the Old and New Worlds, but there are very few representatives described from South America. The North-American species are moderately numerous, but they are not yet very well elucidated.
 
We have obtained a fair series of species from our region which may be arranged in three groups, besides an aberrant species which may form ultimately another genus. Jekel, when describing a species of one of these groups, proposed for it the name of Lasiorhynchites, stating, however, that the European Rhynchites pubescens was the type of the group or subgenus. This association is, however, an unnatural one, as R. pubescens cannot be placed in the same subgenus as R. rufiventris, which is a member of a group peculiar to the tropical regions of the New World. So far as the species of our region are concerned Lasiorhynchites, Jekel, is therefore a synonym of Rhynchites.

Rhynchites is a genus of leaf and bud weevils in the family of beetles known as Attelabidae.