Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Alternative combination: Mitosoma rhinoceroide
Full reference: W. Schawaller. 1981. Pseudoskorpione (Cheliferidae) phoretisch auf Käfern (Platypodidae) in Dominikanischem Bernstein (Stuttgarter Bernsteinsammlung: Pseudoscorpionidea und Coleoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 71:1-17
Belongs to Cenocephalus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015, Schawaller 1981 and Wood and Bright 1992
Sister taxa: Cenocephalus aniskini, Cenocephalus antillicus, Cenocephalus antiquus, Cenocephalus biconicus, Cenocephalus exquisitus, Cenocephalus hurdi, Cenocephalus josephi, Cenocephalus quadrilobus, Cenocephalus quasiexquisitus, Cenocephalus senectus, Cenocephalus spinatus, Cenocephalus succinicaptus, Cenocephalus tenuis
Type specimen: SMNS Do-119-K-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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