†Eugnamptus proterus Poinar and Brown 2007 (tooth-nosed snout weevil)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2007. Eugnamptus proterus, n. sp. (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea : Rhynchitidae), a tooth-nosed snout beetle in mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 109:880-885
Belongs to Eugnamptus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Poinar and Brown 2007 and Poinar and Legalov 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Poinar C-7-402, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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