Succinalophus Legalov 2016 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Incorrectly spelled "Scuccinalophus" in description (but correct in abstract and figure caption), which seems to be an inadvertent error, as the etymology is specified to be derived from succinum.

Full reference: A. A. Legalov. 2016. Two new genera and four new species of fossil weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Baltic amber. Entomologica Fennica 27:57-69

Parent taxon: Tropiphorini according to A. A. Legalov and G. Poinar 2021

See also Legalov 2016 and Legalov 2019

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, Tenillus, Vitavitus, Graptus, Lepidophorus, Trichalophus

Subtaxa: Succinalophus attenboroughi

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Type: Succinalophus attenboroughi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, ISEA Novosibirsk collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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