Sayrevilleus grimaldii Gratshev and Zherikhin 2000 (leaf rolling weevil)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae

Alternative combination: Sanyrevilleus grimaldii

Full reference: V. G. Gratshev and V. V. Zherikhin. 2000. The weevils from the Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey 241-254

Belongs to Sayrevilleus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Gratshev and Zherikhin 2000, Legalov 2012 and Riedel et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH NJ-89, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits), which is in a Turonian delta plain amber/lignite in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits)

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