Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: D. Peris and M. M. Solórzano Kraemer. 2015. Taxonomic names, in New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 15:527-542
Belongs to Cenocephalus according to A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Peris and Solórzano Kraemer 2015
Sister taxa: Cenocephalus aniskini, Cenocephalus antillicus, Cenocephalus antiquus, Cenocephalus biconicus, Cenocephalus exquisitus, Cenocephalus hurdi, Cenocephalus josephi, Cenocephalus quadrilobus, Cenocephalus quasiexquisitus, Cenocephalus rhinoceroide, Cenocephalus senectus, Cenocephalus spinatus, Cenocephalus succinicaptus
Type specimen: SMNS Mx-379, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber (SMNS collection), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in the Mazantic Shale Formation of Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (SMNS collection)
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