Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Synonym: Elegantella Alekseev 1994 [replaced name]

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 2000. On Mesozoic Buprestids (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 34(Suppl 3):S323-S326

Parent taxon: Parathyreinae according to C. L. Bellamy 2008

See also Alekseev 1994 and Alexeev 2000

Sister taxa: Acmaeoderimorpha, Ancestrimorpha, Cretalbiana, Cretocrassisoma, Cretofrontolina, Dicercoptera, Karatausia, Mongoligena, Mongolobuprestis, Paleas, Paramongoligena, Parathyrea, Pseudochrysobothris, Pseudomongoligena, Sinoparathyrea, Stigmoderimorpha, Umerata

Subtaxa: Cretoelegantella ponomarenkoi

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Type: Elegantella ponomarenkoi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)

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