Archaeorrhynchus Explained

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]}

Notes and 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