Pterolophosoma

Pterolophosoma; Temporal range: Burdigalian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cerambycidae
Genus:	Pterolophosoma
Species:	P. otiliae
Binomial name
	Pterolophosoma otiliae; Vitali, 2006

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)". pp. 1–12. ISBN 88-87400-01-6.

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[1] Francesco Vitali. "A new cerambycid from Dominican amber and remarks on the fossil Plectromerus-species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)". pp. 1–12. ISBN 88-87400-01-6.