Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Full reference: A. A. Legalov and G. Poinar. 2020. A new species of the weevil genus Anthonomus Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican amber. Paleontological Journal 54:385-388
Belongs to Anthonomus according to A. A. Legalov and G. Poinar 2020
Sister taxa: Anthonomus (Anthomorphus), Anthonomus (Anthonomus), Anthonomus amaguensis, Anthonomus concussus, Anthonomus debilatus, Anthonomus defossus, Anthonomus eversus, Anthonomus evigilatus, Anthonomus fossilis, Anthonomus lapsus, Anthonomus primordius, Anthonomus revictus, Anthonomus rohweri, Anthonomus soporus, Anthonomus sunchalensis
Type specimen: Poinar D-7-415, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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