Articles | Volume 23, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-197-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-197-2020
Research article
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23 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2020

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

Andrei A. Legalov and Markus J. Poschmann

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The new weevil Igneonasus rudolphi gen. et sp. nov. of the tribe Ceutorhynchini is described from the late Oligocene of Fossillagerstätte Enspel, Germany. The new genus is similar to the Recent genus Stenocarus and the largest representative of the supertribe Ceutorhynchitae. It is the first fossil Curculionidae species described from the paleolake Enspel. In this ancient ecosystem, weevils were at least sometimes an important food resource for the cyprinid fish Palaeorutilus enspelensis.
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