Geratozygops atropos Davis and Engel 2006 (snout beetle)

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

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