Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Full reference: M. L. Chamorro and A. Bukejs. 2015. Taxonomic names, in Two new fossil species of Cryptocephalus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Baltic and Dominican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 117:116-125
Belongs to Cryptocephalus according to M. L. Chamorro and A. Bukejs 2015
Sister taxa: Cryptocephalus groehni, Cryptocephalus minusculus, Cryptocephalus miocenus, Cryptocephalus pitoni, Cryptocephalus relictus, Cryptocephalus vetustus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll)
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