Curculionites epistictus Cockerell and Wagner 1936 (snout beetle)

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 Curculionites according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Cockerell and Wagner 1936

Sister taxa: Curculionites angustior, Curculionites brenthiformis, Curculionites eustictus, Curculionites harringtoni, Curculionites hylobioides, Curculionites jujuyensis, Curculionites latiusculus, Curculionites magdalinus, Curculionites marginatus, Curculionites megastictus, Curculionites microstictus, Curculionites morosus, Curculionites northropi, Curculionites optimus, Curculionites ovatus, Curculionites parastictus, Curculionites parvulus, Curculionites punctillatus, Curculionites redtenbacheri, Curculionites shareipoffi, Curculionites silesiacus, Curculionites stebingeri, Curculionites sunchalicus, Curculionites vulpinus, Curculionites wielandi

Type specimen: AMNH 24510, an elytra. Its type locality is Station 2; Sunchal, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small mudstone/limestone in the Margas Verdes Formation of Argentina.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Station 2; Sunchal

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