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 Caulophilus according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Davis and Engel 2007

Sister taxa: Caulophilus ashei, Caulophilus ayotzinapa, Caulophilus camptus, Caulophilus elongatus, Caulophilus falini, Caulophilus martynovae, Caulophilus rarus, Caulophilus ruidipunctus, Caulophilus squamosus, Caulophilus sucinopunctatus, Caulophilus swensoni, Caulophilus zherikhini

Type specimen: USNM 505352, 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: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll)

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