Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 2008. New Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) and Similar Beetles from the Cretaceous and Early Paleogene of Asia. Paleontological Journal 42:53-59
Belongs to Metabuprestium according to A. V. Alexeev 2008
Sister taxa: Metabuprestium arkagalense, Metabuprestium arkharense, Metabuprestium bayssense, Metabuprestium bontsaganense, Metabuprestium cretaceum, Metabuprestium cuneomaculatum, Metabuprestium dundulense, Metabuprestium furcatorugosum, Metabuprestium granulipenne, Metabuprestium ichbogdoense, Metabuprestium latipenne, Metabuprestium minutum, Metabuprestium nobile, Metabuprestium ovale, Metabuprestium oyunchaiense, Metabuprestium shartologoiense, Metabuprestium sibiricum, Metabuprestium vitimense
Type specimen: PIN 4988/17, an elytra (isolated left elytron). Its type locality is Ust’-Kivda locality, which is in a Danian lacustrine horizon in the Darmakan Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Ust’-Kivda locality
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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