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 otiliae is an extinct species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Pterolophosoma. It was described by Vitali in 2006 who founded it in a Dominican amber dating to Early Miocene.[1]
References[]
- ^ 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
- Prehistoric beetles
- 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
- Beetles described in 2006
- Monotypic beetle genera
- Desmiphorini stubs