Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae
Full reference: R. Etheridge and A. S. Olliff. 1890. The Mesozoic and Tertiary insects of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Palaeontology 7:1-12
Parent taxon: Buprestidae according to C. L. Bellamy 2008
See also Handlirsch 1906 and Tillyard 1916
Sister taxa: Agrilinae, Agrilium, Ancylochira pinguis, Ancylochira striatopunctata, Ancylochira violaceocyanescens, Andakhudukia, Archelater, Buprestinae, Chrysobothrites, Chrysochroa punctata, Chrysochroinae, Coroebus, Ctenicerium, Dictyorachys, Eurynucha, Eurythyreites, Iridotaenia hovassei, Julodinae, Macronotus, Parathyreinae, Planocoleus, Polycestinae, Proctobuprestis, Stigmodera unicolor
Subtaxa: Mesostigmodera typica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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