Rhagonycha

Rhagonycha^[1] is a genus of soldier beetle belonging to the family Cantharidae. There are at least 140 described species recorded from Europe, North America and Japan, and thought to date from the Upper Eocene to recent periods.^[2]

Rhagonycha
Rhagonycha nigriceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Cantharidae
Subfamily:	Cantharinae
Tribe:	Cantharini
Genus:	Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1830
Synonyms
Ragonycha

Rhagonycha limbata

Subgenera and notable species

BioLib^[2] lists two subgenera:

• subgenus Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1830
  • Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli, 1763) - the common red soldier beetle is the type species (as Cantharis fulva Scopoli, 1763, misidentified as C. melanura L., 1758)
  • Rhagonycha testacea (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • List of other Rhagonycha species
• subgenus Ussurycha Kazantsev, 1995 (monotypic)
  • Rhagonycha kazantsevi Svihla, 1995

• 
  Rhagonycha recta
• 
  Rhagonycha testacea