†Dryophthorus superbus Piton 1935 (snout beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Hipporhinus superbus
Full reference: L. Piton. 1935. Note sur un Coléoptère fossile du Lac Chambon (Puy-de-Dome). Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 78:177-178
Belongs to Dryophthorus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Piton 1935, Piton and Théobald 1935 and Zherikhin 2000
Sister taxa: Dryophthorus acarophilus, Dryophthorus corticalis, Dryophthorus microtremus
Type specimen: MNHN B47299, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lac Chambon (Piton coll), which is in a Gelasian crater lake diatomite/volcaniclastic in France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lac Chambon (Piton coll)
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