Insecta - Coleoptera - Attelabidae
Alternative combination: Rhynchitobius xuthocolus
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. A. Legalov. 2015. Two new species of the genus Rhynchitobius Sharp, 1889 (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) in Dominican amber. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 51:70-77
Belongs to Rhynchitobius (Hamiltoniauletes) according to G. Poinar and A. A. Legalov 2015
See also Legalov 2015
Sister taxon: Rhynchitobius (Hamiltoniauletes) tanyrhinus
Type specimen: ISEA DA 2013/1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (ISEA Novosibirsk coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (ISEA Novosibirsk coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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