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Rhyncolus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Rhyncolus was named by Germar (1817). It is extant. It is the type genus of Rhynchalidae.

It was assigned to Cossoninae by Zherikhin (1992); and to Rhyncolina by Bouchard et al. (2011) and Legalov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1817Rhyncolus Germar p. 340
1992Rhyncolus Zherikhin p. 178
2011Rhyncolus Bouchard et al.
2015Rhyncolus Legalov p. 1488

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyCossoninae()
tribeRhyncolini()
subtribeRhyncolina
genusRhyncolus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Rhyncolus Germar 1817
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Rhyncolus brunneus Mannerheim 1843
Rhyncolus chloropus Linnaeus 1758
†Rhyncolus kathrynae Sleeper 1968
Rhyncolus punctatulus Boheman 1838
†Rhyncolus sitoniformis Zherikhin 1992
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 28.10000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma

Collections (14 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) R. sitoniformis (162050)
Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Nevada) R. kathrynae (152192)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Greenland R. spp., R. brunneus (160109 160144)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom R. chloropus (168266) R. punctulatus (168265) R. sp. (168270) R. sp., R. punctulatus (168269)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Washington) R. brunneus (169373 169376 169377 169378 169379 169380)