Bicalcasura maculata Poinar and Legalov 2014 (snout beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Full reference: G. O. Poinar and A. A. Legalov. 2014. Bicalcasura maculata n. gen., n. sp. (Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with a list of weevils described from Dominican amber. Historical Biology 26:449-453

Belongs to Bicalcasura according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Poinar and Legalov 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar C-7-413, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll)

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