Anthaxia beneckei Förster 1891 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Full reference: B. Förster. 1891. Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt. Abhandlungen zur Geologischen Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, Band 3 1:335-593

Belongs to Anthaxia according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Förster 1891 and Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Anthaxia buschi, Anthaxia carbonaria, Anthaxia carniolica, Anthaxia crassicollis, Anthaxia deleta, Anthaxia doris, Anthaxia eocenica, 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 specimen: Its type locality is Brunstatt, horizon d2, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine - large marl in France

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Brunstatt, horizon d2

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