Metrioxenoides Gratshev et al. 1998 (pine flower snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Nemonychidae

Full reference: V. G. Gratshev, V. V. Zherikhin, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1998. A new genus and species of weevil from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea). Cretaceous Research 19:323-327

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

See also Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999, Gratshev and Legalov 2014, Legalov 2009, Legalov 2010 and Legalov 2012

Sister taxa: Brasilnemonyx, Cretoxenoides, Khetanamonyx, Megametrioxenoides

Subtaxa: Metrioxenoides pusillus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Suckthumb Quarry, Isle of Portland (Hard Slatt) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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