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Caulophilus zherikhini, sp. nov. (Curculionidae: Cossoninae) is described from the Late Eocene Rovno amber. The new species is distinguished from all known species of the genus by its longer rostrum. It is especially similar to C. falini Davis et Engel, 2007 from Dominican amber, from which it probably differs also in the more strongly curved rostrum, less flattened body, longer and narrower profemur, and shorter elytral setae.
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Original Russian Text © V.Yu. Nazarenko, A.A. Legalov, E.E. Perkovsky, 2011, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, No. 3, pp. 49–52
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Nazarenko, V.Y., Legalov, A.A. & Perkovsky, E.E. A new species of the genus Caulophilus Woll. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cossoninae) from the Rovno amber. Paleontol. J. 45, 287–290 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030111030105
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