Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1992. Tertiary weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), identified from collections of the Senckenberg Museum. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 72:169-178
Parent taxon: Tanymecini according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011 and Zherikhin 1992
Sister taxa: Hypomeces, Pandeleteinus, Pandeleteinus nudus, Paussopsis secunda, Piazomiina, Tanymecina, Thylacites rugosus
Subtaxa: Protainophthalmus asperulus Protainophthalmus margarus Protainophthalmus punctulatus Protainophthalmus regularis Protainophthalmus rugicollis Protainophthalmus thaisi Protainophthalmus tuberculatus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Germany (1 collection), Italy (1)
• Oligocene of France (12), Germany (1)
• Eocene of France (1)
Total: 16 collections including 30 occurrences
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