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New Early Cretaceous weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from El Montsec, Spain

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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 555-564

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2005.10.015

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Coleoptera; Curculionoidea; Anthribidae; Eccoptarthridae; Nemonychidae; Lower Cretaceous; Spain

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Three new genera and species in the beetle families Anthribidae (Cretochoragus pygmaeus gen. et sp. nov.) and Eccoptarthridae (Montse-canomalus zherikhini gen. et sp. nov. and Hispanocar kseniae gen. sp. nov), and one new species in the family Nemonychidae (Distenorrhinus ocularis sp. nov), from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Spain, are described. The occurrence of fossil species of these families is summarized (Appendix) and briefly reviewed. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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