Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
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: Alophini according to M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga and C. H. C. Lyal 1999
Sister taxa: Catoptes, Centron, Coniatus refractus, Cryptorhynchus durus, Dyslobus, Geralophus, Hipporhinus brevis, Lepyrus evictus, Limalophus, Ophryastes championi, Ophryastes compactus, Ophryastes grandis, Ophryastes petrarum, Otiorhynchus subteractus, Phyxelis, Primocentron, Rhytideres, Sitona paginarum, Succinalophus, Tenillus, Vitavitus, Trichalophus, Graptus
Subtaxa: Lepidophorus alternatus Lepidophorus lineaticollis
Type: Lepidophorus lineaticollis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Alberta, Yukon collections), the Russian Federation (1), United States (8: Washington)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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