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Bicalcasura maculatan. gen., n. sp. (Curculionoidea: Dryophthoridae) with a list of weevils described from Dominican amber
- Source :
- Historical Biology. 26:449-453
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- A new genus and species, Bicalcasura maculata n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Rhynchophorinae: Dryophthoridae) is described from Dominican amber as the first fossil member of the Tribe Diocalandrini. The new genus is characterised by procoxae located in the middle of the prothorax; a thick, short and strongly curved rostrum with the scape not reaching the pronotum; a weak extension of the rostrum in respect to the antennal attachment; slightly elongated fifth ventrite; narrow (not bilobed) third tarsomere and a pair of apical spurs on the protibiae. This set of characters separates the fossil from the extant genus Diocalandra Faust, 1894, the only other member of this tribe. A list of weevils (Curculionoidea) described from Dominican amber is included.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D25F7915-3C49-4E22-A37C-F574F573C67D
Details
- ISSN :
- 10292381 and 08912963
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Historical Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bdcc8d2e4acf45be8524190fc1fa171d