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Rhynchitini

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	209810	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=209810

Rank

tribe (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Attelabidae : Rhynchitini

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
-	Phytophaga
superfamily	Curculionoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Attelabidae
-	Rhynchititae	Gistel 1848
tribe	Rhynchitini	Gistel 1848

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rhynchitini	tribe	belongs to Rhynchitinae	stated with evidence	Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999
Rhynchitini	tribe	belongs to Rhynchititae	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

12 (35%)

First Recorded Appearance

93.9 - 89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Gistel. 1848. Faunula monacensis cantharologica. Isis von Oken

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Perrhynchitina subtribe	listed (PBDB)	2	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Rhynchitina subtribe	listed (PBDB)	5	28.4 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Temnocerina subtribe	listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Isothea ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Prodeporaides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Prodeporaus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1848	Rhynchitini Gistel
1866	Rhynchites hageni von Heyden and von Heyden p. 145 figs. Pl 23, fig 6
1893	Masteutes saxifer Scudder p. 13 figs. Pl 8, fig 4
1893	Isotheina Scudder p. 17
1893	Isotheini Scudder p. 17
1912	Masteutes saxifer Wickham p. 42
1920	Rhynchites hageni Meunier p. 895 figs. Pl 1, fig 4; text-fig 3
1999	Rhynchitini Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 41

Year	Name and Author
1999	Isotheini Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 44
2011	Isotheina Bouchard et al.
2011	Isotheini Bouchard et al.
2011	Rhynchitini Bouchard et al. p. 560
2015	Rhynchitini Legalov p. 1502
2015	Rhynchites hageni Poinar and Legalov p. 71
2019	Rhynchitini Legalov p. 16

References

Gistel J. Faunula monacensis cantharologica, Isis von Oken

von Heyden C., von Heyden L. Käfer und Polypen aus der Braunkohle des Siebengebirges, Palaeontographica 15, 131-156

Scudder S. H. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21, 1-206

Wickham H. F. (1912) On some fossil rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31 4, 41-55

Meunier F. (1920) Quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott, Sept-Monts (Prusse rhénane), Verslagen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 22, 891-898

Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Lyal C. H. C. (1999) , A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae), 1-316

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Legalov A. A. (2015) Fossil Mesozoic and Cenozoic weevils (Coleoptera, Obrienioidea, Curculionoidea), Paleontological Journal 49, 1442-1513

Poinar G., Legalov A. A. (2015) Two new species of the genus Rhynchitobius Sharp, 1889 (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) in Dominican amber, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 51, 70-77

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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