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Caulophilus sucinopunctatus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Phloeophagus sucinopunctatus was named by Kuska (1992). Its type specimen is MZ 554, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Caulophilus sucinopunctatus by Legalov and Bukejs (2018), Legalov (2019) and Legalov and Poinar (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Phloeophagus sucinopunctatus Kuska p. 112 figs. 6-9
2015Phloeophagus sucinopunctatus Legalov p. 1488
2018Caulophilus sucinopunctatus Legalov and Bukejs p. 180 fig. 1g,h
2019Caulophilus sucinopunctatus Legalov p. 33 fig. 7g,i
2020Caulophilus sucinopunctatus Legalov and Poinar p. 360 figs. 11, 12, 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyCossoninae()
tribeDryotribiniLeconte 1876
genusCaulophilusWollaston 1854
speciessucinopunctatus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Caulophilus sucinopunctatus (125139 134456)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Caulophilus sucinopunctatus (124519) Phloeophagus sucinopunctatus (type locality: 120813)