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Toxorhynchus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1176571	https://www.gbif.org/species/1176571
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	233267	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=233267

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Attelabidae : Toxorhynchus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Brentidae : Toxorhynchus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Brentidae
subfamily	Apioninae	(Schoenherr 1823)
tribe	Toxorhynchini	Scudder 1893
subtribe	Toxorhynchina	Scudder 1893
genus	Toxorhynchus	Scudder 1894

Scientific Name

Toxorhynchus Scudder, 1894

Name Published In

Mon. U.S. Geol. Surv., 21

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Toxorhynchus	genus	belongs to Toxorhynchini	stated with evidence	Scudder, 1893
Toxorhynchus	genus	belongs to Rhynchitidae	stated with evidence	Wickham, 1912
Toxorhynchus	genus	belongs to Toxorhynchini	stated with evidence	Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999
Toxorhynchus	genus	belongs to Toxorhynchina	stated with evidence	Legalov, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (4.0%)

First Recorded Appearance

37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. H. Scudder. 1893. Tertiary Rhynchophorous Coleoptera of the United States. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 21:1-206

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anthonomus arctus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anthonomus corruptus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anthonomus reventus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apion confectum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apion florissantensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apion pumilum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apion refrenatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Apion scudderianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Toxorhynchus amphioculus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus arctus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus atriantenus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus atriartus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus confectum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus convexoculus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus convexus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus corruptus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus dominicanus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus florissantensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus fuscocorpus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus grandis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus hispaniolicus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus hispidulus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus leptorhinus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus microsomus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus minusculus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus oculatus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus pumilum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus refrenatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus reventus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus robustus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Toxorhynchus scudderianum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Toxorhynchus stenelytrus ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1893	Toxorhynchus Scudder p. 26
1912	Coelocephalapion Wagner
1912	Toxorhynchus Wickham
1999	Toxorhynchus Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal p. 44
2013	Toxorhynchus Legalov p. 71
2015	Toxorhynchus Legalov p. 1481

References

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

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

Legalov A. A. (2013) New and little known weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from the Paleogene and Neogene, Historical Biology 25, 59-80

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

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mon. U.S. Geol. Surv., 21 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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