Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: K. E. Schedl. 1962. New Platypodidae from Mexican amber. Journal of Paleontology 36(5):1035-1038
Belongs to Cenocephalus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015, Schedl 1962 and Wood and Bright 1992
Sister taxa: Cenocephalus aniskini, Cenocephalus antillicus, Cenocephalus antiquus, Cenocephalus biconicus, Cenocephalus exquisitus, Cenocephalus josephi, Cenocephalus quadrilobus, Cenocephalus quasiexquisitus, Cenocephalus rhinoceroide, Cenocephalus senectus, Cenocephalus spinatus, Cenocephalus succinicaptus, Cenocephalus tenuis
Type specimen: UCMP 12976, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-7456, Simojovel area, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Mexico (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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