Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Zygops durhami

Full reference: E. C. Zimmerman. 1971. Mexican Miocene amber weevils (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 63:103-106

Belongs to Geratozygops according to A. A. Legalov 2015

See also Poinar and Legalov 2014 and Zimmerman 1971

Sister taxa: Geratozygops arsinotus, Geratozygops atropos, Geratozygops platysoma, Geratozygops stenosoma

Type specimen: UCMP 10177, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-8413, Ixhuatan, Rio Tapilula, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at UCMP B-8413, Ixhuatan, Rio Tapilula

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