Insecta - Coleoptera - Brentidae
Full reference: A. Bukejs and A. A. Legalov. 2020. The first record of Brentidae (Coleoptera) in Eocene Rovno amber with description of a new fossil species of Toxorhynchus Scudder, 1893. Fossil Record 23:169-177
Belongs to Toxorhynchus according to A. Bukejs and A. A. Legalov 2020
Sister taxa: Toxorhynchus amphioculus, Toxorhynchus arctus, Toxorhynchus atriantenus, Toxorhynchus atriartus, Toxorhynchus confectum, Toxorhynchus convexoculus, Toxorhynchus convexus, Toxorhynchus corruptus, Toxorhynchus dominicanus, Toxorhynchus florissantensis, Toxorhynchus fuscocorpus, Toxorhynchus grandis, Toxorhynchus hispaniolicus, Toxorhynchus hispidulus, Toxorhynchus leptorhinus, Toxorhynchus michalskii, Toxorhynchus microsomus, Toxorhynchus minusculus, Toxorhynchus oculatus, Toxorhynchus pumilum, Toxorhynchus refrenatum, Toxorhynchus reventus, Toxorhynchus robustus, Toxorhynchus scudderianum, Toxorhynchus stenelytrus
Type specimen: MAIG 6684, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno amber (MAIG collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Rovno amber (MAIG collection)
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