Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 283737

Full reference: E. Oustalet. 1870. Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains Tertiaires de la France, première partie, insectes fossiles de l'Auvergne. Annales des Sciences Géologiques, Paris 2(3):1-178

Belongs to Cleonini according to A. A. Legalov 2015

Sister taxa: Cleonolithus, Cleonus, Cleonus arvernensis, Cleonus degeneratus, Cleonus deucalionis, Cleonus estriatus, Cleonus foersteri, Cleonus larinoides, Cleonus leucosiae, Cleonus primoris, Cleonus pyrrhae, Cleonus rohweri, Cleonus speciosus, Coniocleonus, Eocleonus, Pliocleonus, Scaphomorphus, Stephanocleonus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Corent (Fouilhoux collection), which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl in France

Ecology:

Average measurements (in mm): body 22.0 x 8.0, elytron 16.5 x 3.5