†Nilio dominicanum Poinar and Brown 2011
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Alternative combination: Nilio dominicana
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2011. Descriptions of a broad-nosed weevil (Eudiagogini: Curculionidae) and false ladybird beetle (Nilionini: Nilionidae) in Dominican amber. Historical Biology 23:231-235
Belongs to Nilio according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019
See also Bousquet et al. 2018 and Poinar and Brown 2011
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Poinar C-7-304, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)
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