Cyclorhipidion pseudocrucifer Schedl 1939 (bark beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Alternative combination: Xyleborus pseudocrucifer

Full reference: K. E. Schedl. 1939. Ambrosia beetles from copal (Scolytidae and Platypodidae). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 4(22):468-471

Belongs to Cyclorhipidion according to S. L. Wood and D. E. Bright 1992

See also Legalov 2015 and Schedl 1939

Sister taxon: Cyclorhipidion amanicum

Type specimen: BMNH In. 58647, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at East Africa Copal (BMNH coll)

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