Omphalapion dionysus Heer 1864

Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae

Alternative combination: Rhynchites dionysus

Full reference: O. Heer. 1864. Die Urwelt der Schweiz 1-622

Belongs to Omphalapion according to G. Poinar and A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Heer 1864 and Legalov 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany

Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Zurich collection)

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