Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Protoceletes wolfschwenningerae
Full reference: J. Rheinheimer. 2007. Neue fossile Rüsselkäfer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) aus dem Eozän des Baltischen Bernsteins und der Grube Messel bei Darmstadt. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 365:1-24
Belongs to Electrotribus according to A. A. Legalov et al. 2019
See also Legalov 2015, Legalov 2019 and Rheinheimer 2007
Sister taxa: Electrotribus henningseni, Electrotribus rarus, Electrotribus theryi, Protoceletes hirtus
Type specimen: SMNS BB-593-K, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection
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