Hylesinus facilis Heer 1856 (bark beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: O. Heer. 1856. Ueber die fossilen Insekten von Aix in der Provence. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1:1-40

Belongs to Hylesinus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Heer 1856, Oustalet 1874, Scudder 1885 and Wood and Bright 1992

Sister taxa: Hylesinus (Hylesinus), Hylesinus crenatus, Hylesinus dormiscens, Hylesinus extractus, Hylesinus hydropicus, Hylesinus neli, Hylesinus toranio, Hylesinus varius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Musee Blanchet Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Aix-en-Provence (Musee Blanchet Coll)

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