Toxorhynchus minusculus Scudder 1893 (weevil)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1893. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21:1-206

Belongs to Toxorhynchus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999, Legalov 2013 and Scudder 1893

Sister taxa: Toxorhynchus amphioculus, Toxorhynchus arctus, Toxorhynchus atriantenus, Toxorhynchus atriartus, Toxorhynchus confectum, Toxorhynchus convexoculus, Toxorhynchus convexus, Toxorhynchus corruptus, Toxorhynchus dominicanus, Toxorhynchus europeoeocenicus, Toxorhynchus florissantensis, Toxorhynchus fuscocorpus, Toxorhynchus grandis, Toxorhynchus hispaniolicus, Toxorhynchus hispidulus, Toxorhynchus leptorhinus, Toxorhynchus michalskii, Toxorhynchus microsomus, Toxorhynchus oculatus, Toxorhynchus pumilum, Toxorhynchus refrenatum, Toxorhynchus reventus, Toxorhynchus robustus, Toxorhynchus scudderianum, Toxorhynchus stenelytrus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (4: Colorado collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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