Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae
Alternative combination: Apion confectum
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 Scudder 1893 and Wickham 1912
Sister taxa: Toxorhynchus amphioculus, Toxorhynchus arctus, Toxorhynchus atriantenus, Toxorhynchus atriartus, 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 minusculus, 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
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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