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 and Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015
Sister taxa: Cenocephalus aniskini, Cenocephalus antillicus, Cenocephalus antiquus, Cenocephalus biconicus, Cenocephalus exquisitus, Cenocephalus hurdi, Cenocephalus josephi, Cenocephalus quadrilobus, Cenocephalus quasiexquisitus, Cenocephalus rhinoceroide, Cenocephalus senectus, Cenocephalus succinicaptus, Cenocephalus tenuis
Type specimen: UCMP C-7-177, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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