Fossil Record (Nov 2015)

First record of the genus <i>Pseudopilolabus</i> Legalov, 2003 (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) in Dominican amber

  • G. Poinar Jr.,
  • A. E. Brown,
  • A. A. Legalov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-11-2016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 1
pp. 11 – 16

Abstract

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A new weevil species (urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:2D5E9E4A-A250-4D0A-AF69-CF4753436686), Pseudopilolabus othnius Poinar, Brown and Legalov, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Attelabidae), is described from Dominican amber. The new species is close to the extant P. viridanus (Gyllenhal, 1839) and P. splendens (Gyllenhal, 1839) but differs by having a bronzed body, narrower and more convex elytral intervals, long antennae reaching the middle of the pronotum, and weakly convex eyes; from P. rugiceps (Voss, 1925) it differs by having a smoother pronotum without transverse rugosity; from P. chiriquensis (Hamilton, 1994) it differs by having indistinctly protuberant humeri and the elytra nearly parallel from the humeri to the midpoint. The fossil weevil is the first record of the tribe Pilolabini (Attelabidae) from the West Indies and the first record of the Attelabidae from any amber source.