Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: S. R. Davis and M. S. Engel. 2006. A zygopine weevil in early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 42:255-257
Belongs to Geratozygops according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Davis and Engel 2006 and Poinar and Legalov 2014
Sister taxa: Geratozygops arsinotus, Geratozygops durhami, Geratozygops platysoma, Geratozygops stenosoma
Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-965, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH 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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