[2] It is found in Europe and North America.

[3] The species was first described, as Curculio scaber, by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Linnaeus' description was sketchy, and for a long time was thought to refer to the species now known as Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus, with the present species referred to bifoveolatus Beck.

This misunderstanding was corrected by Löbl & Smetana (2013).

While it was known as bifoveolatus, the species was designated by Roman Borovec (2009) as the type of his new genus Romualdius.