Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1928. Appendix: Beetles from the Fox Hills Cretaceous strata of South Dakota. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 15:37-38
Belongs to Curculionites according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Cockerell 1928, Legalov 2011 and Legalov 2012
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 optimus, Curculionites ovatus, Curculionites parastictus, Curculionites parvulus, Curculionites punctillatus, Curculionites redtenbacheri, Curculionites shareipoffi, Curculionites silesiacus, Curculionites stebingeri, Curculionites sunchalicus, Curculionites vulpinus, Curculionites wielandi
Type specimen: YPM IP 025708, an elytra. Its type locality is Southwest of Dupree, which is in a Maastrichtian marine shale in the Fox Hills Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Southwest of Dupree
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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