Pterolophosoma
| Pterolophosoma Temporal range: Burdigalian
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| Genus: | †Pterolophosoma
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| Species: | †P. otiliae
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| †Pterolophosoma otiliae Vitali, 2006
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Pterolophosoma is an extinct genus of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, containing a single known species, Pterolophosoma otiliae. It was described by Vitali in 2006 who found it in a Dominican amber dating to Early Miocene.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Francesco Vitali. A new cerambycid from Dominican amber and remarks on the fossil Plectromerus-species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Vol. 1. pp. 1–12. ISBN 88-87400-01-6.
Categories:
- Desmiphorini
- Fossil beetle genera
- Beetles of North America
- Burdigalian life
- Neogene Dominican Republic
- Miocene insects of North America
- Prehistoric insects of the Caribbean
- Fauna of Hispaniola
- Insects of the Dominican Republic
- Fossils of the Dominican Republic
- Dominican amber
- Fossil taxa described in 2006
- Monotypic Cerambycidae genera
- Desmiphorini stubs