Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) mongolicus Zherikhin 1986 (pine flower snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nemonychidae

Alternative combination: Oxycorynoides mongolicus

Full reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1986. Weevils. Scarabaeida, Curculionoidea, in Nasekomye v rannemelovykh ekosistemakh zapadnoy Mongolii. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition 28:105-108

Belongs to Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Gratshev and Legalov 2014, Legalov 2010, Legalov 2012 and Zherikhin 1986

Sister taxa: Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) bucklowae, Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) gurvanensis, Oxycorynoides (Oxycorynoides) similis

Type specimen: PIN 3149/979, an exoskeleton

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Gurvan-Ereny-Nuruu (Outcrop 236/29) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

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