Curculionites optimus Cockerell 1920 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, III. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 6:65-72

Belongs to Curculionites according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Cockerell 1920

Sister taxa: Curculionites angustior, Curculionites brenthiformis, Curculionites epistictus, Curculionites eustictus, Curculionites harringtoni, Curculionites hylobioides, Curculionites jujuyensis, Curculionites latiusculus, Curculionites magdalinus, Curculionites marginatus, Curculionites megastictus, Curculionites microstictus, Curculionites morosus, Curculionites northropi, Curculionites ovatus, Curculionites parastictus, Curculionites parvulus, Curculionites punctillatus, Curculionites redtenbacheri, Curculionites shareipoffi, Curculionites silesiacus, Curculionites stebingeri, Curculionites sunchalicus, Curculionites vulpinus, Curculionites wielandi

Type specimen: BMNH In. 12869, an elytra. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (Jones collection), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (Jones collection)

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