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[R] Family of the order Coleoptera. Allied to the Curculionidae, these insects have club-shaped, not elbowed antennae. Some of them are leaf roller, females laying eggs in leaf rolls.
Noticeable are Coenorhinus aequatus
, Rhynchites coeruleus
, Rhynchites bacchus
and Rhynchites auratus
.

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