†Micromimus orcus Davis and Engel 2007 (snout beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: S. R. Davis and M. S. Engel. 2007. Cossonine weevils in Dominican amber (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 39:803-820
Belongs to Micromimus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Davis and Engel 2007 and Poinar and Legalov 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 505348, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena 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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