New Curculioninae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Dominican amber

Abstract

A new genus and four new species of Curculioninae are described from Dominican amber. Neosibinia gen. nov. differs from the extant genera Tychius and Sibinia by the tibiae lacking a mucro and uncus, the elongate pronotum distinctly narrower than the elytral humeri and the sharp bend in the rostrum. Derelomus thalioculus sp. nov. differs from other Derelomus species by the body covering of fine, dense setae. Anthonomus cruraluma sp. nov. is similar to the extant A. filicornis but differs by the tibiae with mucro, elongate body, shorter rostrum, and the smaller body size. Anthonomus browni sp. nov. is distinguished from the extant A. sulcipygus by its narrow elongate body, femora with minute distal tooth and shorter and thicker rostrum. These new taxa further demonstrate the diversity of weevil fauna in Dominican amber.

Two new genera and four new species of fossilweevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Baltic amber

“…The oldest Curculioninae from the tribe Curculionini are described from the Paleocene of France (Piton 1940), because the earlier representative described in this subfamily (Poinar 2009) belongs to another family (Legalov & Poinar 2015). Members of this subfamily are abundant in the terminal Eocene of Florissant (Scudder 1893;Legalov 2015) and Miocene Dominican amber (Poinar & Legalov 2015a). Species of the genera Succinostyphlus Kuska, 1996, Dorytomus Germar, 1817 and Pachytychius Jekel, 1861 from the tribe Ellesini have been described from the Baltic amber (Kuska 1996, Legalov in press).…”

New Anthribidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Dominican and Mexican ambers

“…Currently the Mexican amber weevil fauna is represented by three species of the families Rhynchitidae and Curculionidae (Zimmermann, 1971;Poinar and Brown, 2007), while Dominican amber contains some 90 species of the families Belidae, Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae and Curculionidae (Davis and Engel, 2006a, 2006b, 2006c, 2007Poinar, 2009;Poinar and Brown, 2011;Poinar et al, 2013Poinar et al, , 2016Poinar and Legalov, 2014a, 2014b, 2014c, 2014d, 2015a, 2015b2015c, 2015d. The above descriptions of Anthribidae add yet another family of curculionid beetles to the New World amber faunas.…”

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

“…nov. in Dominican amber adds another family of curculionid beetles to the Dominican amber fauna. Thus far, the families Belidae (Oxycoryninae) (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2014d), Rhynchitidae (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2015e), Brentidae (Apioninae (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2015c) and Brentinae (Poinar Jr., 2009)), Curculionidae (Molytinae (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2014b;Poinar Jr. and Voisin, 2003), Dryophthorinae Engel, 2006c, 2009;Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2014a), Cossoninae Engel, 2006b, 2007a;Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2015d), Baridinae (Davis and Engel, 2006a;Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2014c;Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2015b), Curculioninae (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2015a) and Entiminae (Poinar Jr. and Brown, 2011;Poinar Jr. et al, 2013)), Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Bright and Poinar Jr., 1994;Davis and Engel, 2007b) have been reported from this amber source. Pseudopilolabus othnius sp.…”