Lixus ligniticus Piton 1940 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Lixus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Lixus (Eulixus), Lixus paraplecticus

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 254, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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