Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative spelling: Lepyridae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Molytinae according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Löbl and Smetana 2013
Sister taxa: Acicnemidini, Anchonini, Anoplini, Cleogonini, Conotrachelini, Hylobiini, Lymantini, Mecysolobini, Molytini, Petalochilini, Phrynixini, Pissodini, Sciabregmini, Sternechini, Trachodini
Subtaxa: Lepyrus
Type: Lepyrus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (3 collections), the Russian Federation (16), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Washington)
Total: 21 collections including 23 occurrences