Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: D. G. Kissinger. 1973. A new weevil genus from America north of the Arctic circle and notes of fossils from Pliocene and Pleistocene sediments (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 27:193-200
Parent taxon: Tropiphorini according to N. N. Yunakov and A. G. Kirejtshuk 2011
See also Alonso-Zarazaga and 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, Trichalophus, Graptus, Lepidophorus
Subtaxa: Vitavitus thulius
Type: Vitavitus thulius
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Alberta, Yukon collections), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Alaska)
• Pliocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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