†Hypothenemus avitus Bright and Poinar 1994 (coffee borer beetle)
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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 Hypothenemus according to G. O. Poinar and A. A. Legalov 2019
See also Bright and Poinar 1994 and Legalov 2015
Sister taxon: Hypothenemus emmi
Type specimen: UCMP C-7-242, an exoskeleton. 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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