Anthaxia eocenica Bílý 1996 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Synonym: Anthaxia biimpressa Piton 1940 [replaced name]

Full reference: S. Bílý. 1996. New species of Anthaxia and some nomenclatorical changes in Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Folia Heyrovskyana 4:21-33

Belongs to Anthaxia according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Balazuc and Descarpentries 1964, Bílý 1996 and Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Anthaxia beneckei, Anthaxia buschi, Anthaxia carbonaria, Anthaxia carniolica, Anthaxia crassicollis, Anthaxia deleta, Anthaxia doris, Anthaxia exhumata, Anthaxia geiseltalensis, Anthaxia haupti, Anthaxia maculipennis, Anthaxia pallida, Anthaxia prasina, Anthaxia primaeva, Anthaxia punctifera, Anthaxia quadrimaculata, Anthaxia rubididorsa, Anthaxia ventricosa, Anthaxia viridicyanea, Anthaxia weidlichi

Type specimens:

  • Anthaxia eocenica: Coll. Piton 926, an exoskeleton.
  • Anthaxia biimpressa: Coll. Piton 926, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection) (Paleocene of France)

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