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