Rhinocyllus is a small genus of true weevil, with 4 species described. The host plants of this genus are thistles in the subtribe Carduinae. Its sister group is Bangasternus.
Rhinocyllus is a small genus of true weevil, with 4 species described. The host plants of this genus are thistles in the subtribe Carduinae. Its sister group is Bangasternus.
The most well-known species is R. conicus which is a controversial agent of biological pest control which has been used against noxious thistles in the genera Carduus, Cirsium, Onopordum, and Silybum.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).