Otiorhynchites Fritsch 1882 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Synonym: Otiorrhynchites Haupt 1956

Full reference: A. Fritsch. 1882. Fossile Arthropoden aus der Steinkohlen und Kreidformation Bohmens. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 2:1-7

Parent taxon: Curculionidae according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Cockerell 1925, Cockerell 1936, Handlirsch 1907, Haupt 1956, Legalov 2011 and Lin 1997

Sister taxa: Brachycerinae, Dryophthorinae, Erirhininae, Ocladiinae, Raymondionyminae, Brachycerites

Subtaxa: Otiorhynchites aberranis Otiorhynchites absentivus Otiorhynchites aterrimus Otiorhynchites commutatus Otiorhynchites constans Otiorhynchites crassus Otiorhynchites densepunctatus Otiorhynchites florissantensis Otiorhynchites fossilis Otiorhynchites tysoni Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus Otiorhynchites williamsi

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), United States (7: Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Hong Kong (5)

Total: 16 collections including 18 occurrences

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