Journal
HISTORICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 670-674Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2013.829825
Keywords
Dominican amber; Coleoptera; Belidae; new taxa; Tertiary weevils
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [12-04-00663-a]
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A new genus and species of belid weevils, Pleurambus strongylus Poinar and Legalov, n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Belidae) in the tribe Allocorynini is described from Dominican amber. Belid fossils are quite rare and the new species is the first fossil member of the family from the Neotropics. This discovery suggests that belid diversity in Hispaniola during the Tertiary was higher than at present since no extant belids have been reported from the West Indies. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DF79FF39-634D-4BD7-AD0B-F5FB3BBE1081
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