Amber Listserv / Nice Cretaceous weevil

[Ron Buckley]

Here is the only weevil I know of found in Cretaceous amber. There are also some scientests encouraging publishers not to publish any papers where the specimen is in a private collection. This however is not part of the scientific code concerning amber. Dr George Poinar however is doing a fine job at getting specimens described and published. Below is the imformation on the weevil as well as an attached picture. I will be sending more imformation as I can. Thanks, Ron 







Poinar, Jr., G. O. 2006. Mesophyletis calhouni (Mesophyletinae), a new genus, 

species and subfamily of Early Cretaceous weevils 

(Curculionoidea: Eccoptarthridae) in Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.   

 
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