Rhagonychavon Eschscholtz JF (1830) Nova genera Coleopterorum Faunae Europaeae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 2(1): 63–66. 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.BioLib.cz: genus Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1830 (retrieved 27 June 2020)

Subgenera and notable species BioLib 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

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