Cenocephalus biconicus Bright and Poinar 1994 (ambrosia beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: D. E. Bright and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera) from Dominican Republic Amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87(2):170-194

Belongs to Cenocephalus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Bright and Poinar 1994

Sister taxa: Cenocephalus aniskini, Cenocephalus antillicus, Cenocephalus antiquus, Cenocephalus exquisitus, Cenocephalus hurdi, Cenocephalus josephi, Cenocephalus quadrilobus, Cenocephalus quasiexquisitus, Cenocephalus rhinoceroide, Cenocephalus senectus, Cenocephalus spinatus, Cenocephalus succinicaptus, Cenocephalus tenuis

Type specimen: UCMP C-7-167, an exoskeleton (body). Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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