Where: Ukraine (51.7° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 21.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collected by S.A. Suvorkin

Collection methods: surface (float)

• In private collection of S.A. Suvorkin (Kiev). The type will be deposited in the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev).

Primary reference: V. Y. Nazarenko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2009. A new genus and species of dryophthorid weevils (Coleoptera, Dryophthoridae: Stromboscerinae) from the Rovno amber. Paleontological Journal 43(9):1097-1100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122998: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.01.2012

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