Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell and C. Wagner. 1936. Taxonomy; The Fauna of the Sunchal (or Margas Verdes) formation, Northern Argentina. American Museum Novitates 886:1-9

Belongs to Otiorhynchites according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Cockerell and Wagner 1936

Sister taxa: Otiorhynchites aberranis, Otiorhynchites absentivus, Otiorhynchites aterrimus, Otiorhynchites commutatus, Otiorhynchites constans, Otiorhynchites densepunctatus, Otiorhynchites florissantensis, Otiorhynchites fossilis, Otiorhynchites tysoni, Otiorhynchites wilcoxianus, Otiorhynchites williamsi

Type specimen: AMNH 24513, an elytra. Its type locality is Station 3; Sunchal, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small mudstone/limestone in the Maíz Gordo Formation of Argentina.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Station 3; Sunchal

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