Baltocar hoffeinsorum Riedel 2012 (leaf rolling weevil)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae

Full reference: A. Riedel. 2012. Taxonomic names, in Sayrevilleinae Legalov, a newly recognised subfamily of fossil weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Attelabidae) and the use of synchrotron microtomography to examine inclusions in ambe. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165:780-790

Belongs to Baltocar according to A. A. Legalov 2019

See also Legalov 2015 and Riedel 2012

Sister taxa: Baltocar convexus, Baltocar groehni, Baltocar sontagae, Baltocar subnudus, Baltocar succinicus

Type specimen: GPIH 4517, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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