Hypera nigrirostris
Hypera nigrirostris, commonly known as the lesser clover leaf weevil, is a species of weevil that is native to Europe and northern Africa and has been introduced to North America and Japan. Both adults and larvae feed on red clover and other plants in the family Fabaceae.

Janet Graham · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyperaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Hypera nigrirostris on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Morychus aeneus2 sites
- Agabus1 site
- Agonum (Europhilus)1 site
- Agonum quinquepuncatum1 site
- Amara1 site
- Amara (Cyrtonotus) torrida1 site
- Amara (Paracelia) quenseli1 site
- Artemisia1 site
- Asteraceae1 site
- Bembidion1 site
- Bembidion (Peryphus)1 site
- Bembidion (Phyla)1 site
- Bembidion (Plataphus)1 site
- Bembidion (Testedium) bipunctatum1 site
- Betula1 site
- Brassicaceae1 site
- Campanula1 site
- Candona candida1 site
- Candona neglecta1 site
- Carex1 site
- Caryophyllaceae1 site
- Characaea indet.1 site
- Coelostoma orbiculare1 site
- Cyperaceae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypera nigrirostris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Late Cenozoic insects of northern Eurasia1
- A Late Pleistocene fauna and flora from Upton Warren, Worcestershire1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hypera nigrirostris
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Janet Graham
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypera nigrirostris was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHypera through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fabricius 1775)