Archaeorrhynchus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Nemonychidae
Genus: †Archaeorrhynchus
Type species
†Archaeorrhynchus tenuicornis
Martynov, 1926
Species
  • †A. tenuicornis Martynov, 1926
  • †A. acutirostris Arnoldi, 1977
  • †A. carpenteri Legalov, 2014

Archaeorrhynchus is an extinct genus of weevil from the family Nemonychidae. It is known from the Callovian-Oxfordian Karabastau Formation in Kazakhstan. The type species, Archaeorrhynchus tenuicornis, was named in 1926.[1] Two other species, A. tenuicornis and A. carpenteri, were described from the same locality.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Hallan, J. (2010) Coleoptera of the World. Published on June 6, 2010
  2. ↑ L. V. Arnoldi. 1977. Rhynchopora in "Мезозойские жёсткокрылые. Академия наук СССР, Труды Палеонтологического Института" (Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta). 161:142-176
  3. ↑ A. A. Legalov. 2014. Taxonomic names, in The Mesozoic stage of evolution of the family Nemonychidae (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Paleontological Journal 48:851-944
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