1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence III. xxxiv. 514 The Rhynchophorous or rostrum-bearing beetles.
1942 (Royal Soc.) B. 231 259 Their position corresponds in general with that of the labial palps of a rostrum-bearing member of the Curculionidae.
2007 L. A. Doguzhaeva et al. in N. H. Landman et al. vi. 139 Flower and Gordon..discovered an extensive Early Carboniferous collection of rostrum-bearing coleoids.