Dicercoptera Alexeev 1995 (jewel beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Buprestidae

Synonym: Dicercomorpha Alekseev 1994 [replaced name]

Full reference: A. V. Alexeev. 1995. New taxa of metallic wood-boring beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the Mesozoic of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30:310-317

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

See also Alekseev 1994 and Alexeev 1995

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

Subtaxa: Dicercoptera longipennis

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Type: Dicercomorpha longipennis

Ecology:

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

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