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

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Abstract.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.

New genus of the tribe Ceutorhynchini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the late Oligocene of Enspel, southwestern Germany, with a remark on the role of weevils in the ancient food web

“…overview by Poschmann et al, 2010;Wuttke et al, 2010Wuttke et al, , 2015Köhler and Uhl, 2014); and more than 12 000 specimens of arthropods, mainly insects and a minor share of arachnids (e.g. Wedmann, 1998aWedmann, , b, 2000Poschmann and Wedmann, 2005;Poschmann, 2006;Wappler and Heiss, 2006;Fikáček et al, 2008;Wedmann et al, 2010;Fanti and Poschmann, 2019;Brockhaus et al, 2020;Jessen, 2020).…”