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Rhynchophorini
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| Male (left) and female specimens of Cyrtotrachelus dux | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Dryophthorinae |
| Tribe: | Rhynchophorini Schönherr, 1838 |
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The tribe Rhynchophorini is the largest member of the true weevil subfamily Dryophthorinae. Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999) treated it as a distinct subfamily, Rhynchophorinae (in the family Dryophthoridae).[1] Weevils of this tribe have the pygidium (VII abdominal tergite) not covered by the elytra.
This tribe includes the largest weevils of the subfamily, such as palm weevils.
- ^ * Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A. & Lyal, C.H.C. 1999. A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera, excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, SCP Edition, Barcelona
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