Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Lixus rugicollis
Full reference: O. Heer. 1847. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Erster Theil: Käfer 1-229
Belongs to Protainophthalmus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Heer 1847, Heer 1864 and Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011
Sister taxa: Protainophthalmus asperulus, Protainophthalmus margarus, Protainophthalmus punctulatus, Protainophthalmus regularis, Protainophthalmus thaisi, Protainophthalmus tuberculatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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