Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: N. N. Yunakov and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2011. New genus and species of broad-nosed weevils from Baltic amber and notes on fossils of the subfamily Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). ZooKeys 160:73-96
Belongs to Arostropsis according to A. A. Legalov and G. Poinar 2021
See also Legalov 2015, Legalov 2019 and Yunakov and Kirejtshuk 2011
Sister taxa: Arostropsis gusakovi, Arostropsis kirejtshuki, Arostropsis perkovskyi
Type specimen: GPIH 4516, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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